Kerala Health Minister K.K.Shailaja Teacher, on Sunday, acknowledged that Tamil Nadu’s public health system was “good”. As for Kerala, it had prepared much earlier to combat COVID-19. “The situation in Kerala is different from other parts of the world — we have many financial problems but because of the decentralisation, people-centric planning we have high Human Development Index (HDI) and effective public health system. Mr. Haasan said that Kerala government could not have tackled the crisis well unless the government backed the Minister. Unless there is total backing of the government, good job cannot be done,” Mr. Haasan said.

Source: The Hindu May 31, 2020 18:47 UTC