No big deal.

"Last July, more than 20 children were admitted to the Pediatric Emergency Unit of the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital in Gambia with kidney failure." Reuters. "Nearly all died." "Three months later, the deaths of more than 70 Gambian children from Acute Kidney Injury were linked by global health officials to cough syrups made in India and contaminated with ethylene glycol (EG) and diethylene glycol (DEG)." "Pharmaceutical experts have warned for years about lax oversight of drugs made in India, whose industry supplies nearly half of the generic medicines used in Africa. India's regulator says it found no fault with the medicines." If it is any consolation to Africans, we in India are treated even worse. "In a shocker, the Shinde-Fadnavis government in Maharashtra has admitted to an incident of 'bonded labor' involving the death of a minor tribal girl after the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi raised the issue." DH. Bonded labor, or debt bondage, is where a debtor is made to pay back his/her loan through unpaid labor. wikipedia. However, since the borrower is usually extremely poor and the interest charged is usurious, the debt is almost impossible to pay off and passes down to children. Bonded labor was banned by The Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976. labour.gov.in. In 2018, India was placed 53rd out of 167 countries with nearly 8 million people in some form of forced labor. testbook.com. On 24 March 2020, a stringent lockdown was forced on Indians with just 8 hours notice when there were just 500 confirmed cases of Covid-19. wikipedia. Millions of people packed into cramped shops in a frenzy of panic buying of essentials. India Today. As millions of migrant laborers lost their jobs and livelihoods they were forced to walk hundreds of kilometers back to their villages as all public transport was shut down. "All along the 800 km, Pune-to-Bhopal stretch of the Mumbai -Agra NH, thousands upon thousands of migrant workers, children in arms, stumbling along, are stretched out in unending lines." TOI, 12 May 2020. "Exhausted people sleep on the roadside. Children cry in hunger. Mothers cast anguished glances at vehicles that won't stop." The Gujarat government released 11 men on Independence Day last year, convicted of gang rape of 21-year-old Bilkis Bano in 2002, when she was pregnant, and killing 14 members of her family, including her three-year-old daughter whose head was bashed in with a rock. NDTV. Gurmeet Ram Rahim, serving a 20-year jail sentence for rape and murder, is repeatedly released on parole and has politicians touching his feet. TOI. It is no consolation for African parents who have lost their children, but we citizens of India have no right to life or dignity in death. Please mourn for us.