How the pandemic’s aftermath offers an opportunity for course correction in healthcare
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A person being vaccinated against Covid-19 at the District Hospital in Sector 30, on June 8, 2022 in Noida, India.
Synopsis
Stemming brain drain and expanding institutional capacity to address health challenges are Indian healthcare’s long-term goals. For now, the pandemic has served as a call to rethink healthcare-delivery models. The first step towards this should be an overhaul in human resources with an eye on skills and staff distribution. The second is to link research and innovation with institutional policy.
There has been heated debate across the world on the origin of the coronavirus that caused the pandemic, but it remains shrouded in mystery even after two years. The statements by an increasingly politicised and ineffectual World Health Organization (WHO) have added to the difficulties to put the crisis in the correct perspective. India was not immune to the human misery and economic havoc that the pandemic wreaked, but sustained universal
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