Armtwisting them works. In the past I have been able to get them to administer ayurvedic medicines for a relative (unrelated to COVID19) with amazing effects. Unfortunately, despite the fact that they rarely face malpractice suits etc in India, they have 0 willingness to try other protocols.The thing with ayurvedic medication is that many of the allopathic doctors may not be willing to administer medicines without understanding its content, source and efficacy . I feel someone who is healthy and wants to take natural medicines as a precautionary measure can and should try ayurveda, but someone who is already infected with medium to severe condition may be difficult candidates because at that point they are already hospitalized.
Even if you don't have big name connections, being adamant about full transparency helps. Sometimes that implies sitting there for 15-20 hours. That degree of scrutiny is the only way to get them to move.
I wonder if we could have a COVID19 board of shame - name and shame the hospitals, bureaucrats, organizations.
. This alternating between hope and despair is unnerving onlee, I never much liked see-saw games when young, either you get stuck high and dry, or if the other kid does, then you can't get off without bonking your jewels.
. And it seems that it is India which is heading for 1 lakh cases a day. The infection seems to have burned through the lower strata of Mumbai, maybe the higher layers are now getting it. Have downloaded a lot of data, pending analysis.