In what ways India can reprioritise the health care services at various level to handle the impacts of future pandemics. Explain (200 Words)
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KEY POINTS
India needs to enhance the surveillance system, vaccinate quickly, and reprioritise healthcare services
Surveillance strategy
· The Central and State government should use real-time data by encouraging reliable reporting and initiating standardised definitions.
· India missed building containment and mitigation measures while Maharashtra was seeing a surge in cases during the second wave.
· A strong surveillance system reporting the minimum number of cases will thus provide reliable early markers of an impending wave.
· Concurrent genomic sequencing in real-time in the fixed proportion of samples will give us an idea of the likelihood of the variants causing several outbreaks.
Vaccinating the population
· India can emerge as the world’s biggest exporter of vaccines in addition to helping citizens in the country.
· The Central government should proactively reach out to all the vaccine manufacturing firms and invite them to collaborate with Indian firms under the ‘Make in India’ programme.
· India needs to fast-track the manufacturing of all vaccines which have been approved for use by various regulatory authorities through a single-window clearance.
· India can become a soft superpower if it facilitates faster manufacturing by helping the Indian industry.
Robust public health workforce
· Doctors and nurses have to bear the burden mainly because of a depleted or absent public health workforce.
· It is an essential to hire front-line workers in public health who can engage in surveillance and contract-tracing, and mobilise people for primary healthcare services, including vaccination.
Tapasvi 4 years
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