Karnataka Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar on Sunday claimed that modern Indian women want to remain single, unwilling to administer birth even after marriage and desire children by surrogacy.
“Today, i’m sorry to mention this, many modern women in India want to remain single. whether or not they unify, they do not want to present birth. they require surrogacy. So there’s a paradigm shift in our thinking, which isn’t good,” he said during the globe mental state Day at the National Institute of psychological state and Neurological Sciences (NIMHANS).
Lamenting the “western influence” on Indian society, the Minister said people aren’t willing to let their parents be with them.
“Unfortunately, today we are getting in a western way. we do not want our parents to measure with us, ignore grandparents being with us,” the minister said.
Speaking about psychological state in India, Mr Sudhakar said every seventh Indian has some quite mental issue, which may be mild, moderate and severe.
However, in line with him, stress management is an art and Indian needn’t should learn but preach the globe a way to handle it.
“Stress management is an art. This art we’d like not learn as Indians. we’d like to evangelise to the globe a way to handle stress, because yoga, meditation and Pranayama are the wonderful tools which our ancestors had taught the planet thousands of years back,” he said.
About COVID-19 and mental state, Mr Sudhakar said the relatives weren’t ready to touch the bodies of their near and dear ones, which caused them mental agony.
“The pandemic made the govt. start counselling COVID-19 patients. Till date we’ve counseled 24 lakh COVID-19 patients in Karnataka. i do not know the other state which has done this,” Sudhakar said.
Expressing his gratitude to the NIMHANS, he said the institute was counseling people from its digital platform and was offering tele-medicine.
Mr Sudhakar also expressed his gratitude to Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, who spoke earlier at the event, for giving 1.5 crore COVID-19 vaccines to Karnataka each month since September, which increased the inoculation coverage within the state.
He hailed the union government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for giving 94 crore vaccines till date since the launch of vaccination drive because the country undertook the Herculean task of vaccinating the whole population freed from cost.
“We are the sole country which is offering vaccines freed from cost. Elsewhere, people are made to pay between ₹ 1,500 to ₹ 4,000 per vaccine,” Mr Sudhakar said.
