Covid-19 Pandemic Has Shown Why There is a Pressing Need to Improve Healthcare Human Resources
2 years, 6 months ago

Covid-19 Pandemic Has Shown Why There is a Pressing Need to Improve Healthcare Human Resources

News 18  

The healthcare system in India has always been kept on a backseat and the ongoing pandemic has exposed the true condition of it. According to the WHO’s 2006 report, titled ‘World Health’, human resources of health is one of the core building blocks in a health system whose primary intent is to enhance health. Challenges Faced by Health Human Resources in India The first responders of health policies and services in India have both shortages of personal protective equipment and long working hours. Even more demoralising is the fact that the health human resources frequently experience verbal and physical abuse. Building Capacity for Achieving Long-Term Goals To enhance health outcomes for all Indians, with a focus on reducing infectious illness and socially-focus inequities, capacity building and strengthening of health human resources are necessary.

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Ready, or not: The Hindu Editorial on rising numbers of COVID-19 cases and India’s state of preparedness
1 year, 8 months ago

Ready, or not: The Hindu Editorial on rising numbers of COVID-19 cases and India’s state of preparedness

The Hindu  

The better part of management is preparedness. On April 12, a total of 7,830 new cases were reported in a 24-hour period, according to the Union Health Ministry’s data, possibly the highest in over 200 days. However, health systems can scarcely afford to be under prepared, especially considering the recent traumatic experience of a raging pandemic taking a huge toll. …

Chandrakant Lahariya | In 2023, let’s try to make India a healthier nation
1 year, 11 months ago

Chandrakant Lahariya | In 2023, let’s try to make India a healthier nation

Deccan Chronicle  

The year 2022 is behind us and so is hopefully Covid-19, which arguably has become endemic in India. Clearly, the start of the year 2023 is the time we in India must move on from Covid-19 and use the learnings for further strengthening our health services. However, during the Covid-19 pandemic, much of health system attention was diverted to the …

Rural areas need human resources for health
2 years, 1 month ago

Rural areas need human resources for health

Hindustan Times  

The Covid-19 pandemic has uncovered the chronic problems in Indian health care including shortage of health care workers, health inequities, and marginalisation of evidence-based public health. This protracted lack of investment has impeded HRH scale up, recruitment, and training and resulted in budgetary constraints that limit their employment, particularly in rural areas. Only 18.8% of rural allopathic doctors held a …

Where does India stand with its human resources for health?
2 years, 2 months ago

Where does India stand with its human resources for health?

Hindustan Times  

Covid-19 initiated several conversations around the shortcomings of the health systems globally ranging from their incapability to manage the large volumes of admissions to the lack of access to basic medical facilities, tests and treatment options. The 2006 WHO report that came during the Millennium Development Goals era estimated that a minimum of 22.8 doctors, nurses and midwives are needed …

Chandrakant Lahariya | At 75, time to focus on a healthier India@100
2 years, 4 months ago

Chandrakant Lahariya | At 75, time to focus on a healthier India@100

Deccan Chronicle  

The last two and a half years of the Covid-19 pandemic has been challenging for our entire society. The fact is that while health has got a lot of attention in the pandemic period — going by the poor status of health services in a majority of Indian states and poor health indices — there is a real need for …

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy lauds State’s public health system at Davos
2 years, 7 months ago

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy lauds State’s public health system at Davos

The Hindu  

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on May 23 said that precaution against diseases and timely treatment of potential illnesses were the cornerstones of his government’s successful public health system. Participating in a WEF public session titled ‘Future-Proofing Health Systems’, Jagan Mohan Reddy spoke about the methods adopted by his government to strengthen the medical systems in the …

Covid Pandemic Should Be a Lesson for States to Retrofit Ailing Health Systems
2 years, 10 months ago

Covid Pandemic Should Be a Lesson for States to Retrofit Ailing Health Systems

News 18  

In December 2021, as much of India was approaching what is now the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, NITI Aayog released the latest edition of its Health Index. However, data from the index show a neglected state of affairs across critical aspects of health systems governance pre-Covid. The Governance and Information domain is covered by a total of four …

With Omicron Joining Delta, Building All-Weather Health System Must Be Top Priority for 2022
2 years, 11 months ago

With Omicron Joining Delta, Building All-Weather Health System Must Be Top Priority for 2022

News 18  

A new calendar year dawns, nested in India’s 75th year of Independence. ‘Protective’ third doses of approved vaccines must be administered to all persons above 60 years of age, frontline health workers and other essential workers whose double dose vaccination was completed prior to nine months, according to the recent government policy. Primary care is the multi-compartment train for delivering …

Making India self-reliant in health care
3 years, 1 month ago

Making India self-reliant in health care

Hindustan Times  

The coronavirus pandemic presented to us a set of complex challenges, demanding a prompt response to the evolving situation in a manner that also facilitated rapid scaling up of the public health infrastructure, with an approach calibrated to the varying maturity of health systems across India. It also aims to provide health infrastructure, surveillance and research to make the country …

Reimagining human resources for health in India
3 years, 3 months ago

Reimagining human resources for health in India

Hindustan Times  

The state, market and people of India have played proactive roles in transforming the health human resource scenario in India over 75 years. Did our health human resource strategy and financial planning keep pace with the legitimate aspirations of every citizen for good health and access to health care? A closer look at the pandemic response and the impact on …

Lessons for India from Kerala’s Covid experience
3 years, 3 months ago

Lessons for India from Kerala’s Covid experience

Hindustan Times  

Many held Kerala up as a national and global example on how to manage Covid-19 during the first wave of the pandemic. Based on statistical and scientific evidence on hand, it can be safely surmised that Kerala’s crisis is caused by a mutant strain of the original virus, and an extremely poor containment and home quarantine policy. As evident from …

Vulnerable groups caught between two worlds amid lockdowns
3 years, 4 months ago

Vulnerable groups caught between two worlds amid lockdowns

The Hindu  

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the catastrophic consequences of the public health system remaining largely underfunded in India. A nationwide study on three vulnerable groups during the pandemic published recently said: “Public health measures are rarely apolitical, and, as the situation in India shows, can be experienced as forms of exclusion and repression for vulnerable groups of people.” The study, …

Experiences of Rajasthan and HP frontline workers during pandemic
3 years, 5 months ago

Experiences of Rajasthan and HP frontline workers during pandemic

Hindustan Times  

Anganwadi Workers, Accredited Social Health Activists and Auxiliary Nurse Midwives form the locus of healthcare and nutrition delivery in rural India. Approximately 13.3 lakh AWWs, 9.3 lakh ASHAs and 2.3 lakh ANMs across the country serve as the first port of call for primary health and nutrition services, particularly in the domain of Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health. …

The unseen cost of covid’s long shadow on India
3 years, 6 months ago

The unseen cost of covid’s long shadow on India

Live Mint  

NEW DELHI : The second wave of the pandemic might have ebbed, but Ritu Garg, a Gurugram-based doctor, has had no respite. “People are now coming in with diseases like cancer at an advanced stage, uncontrolled diabetes, heart ailments, and more," said Garg, zonal director at Fortis Memorial Research Institute. A World Health Organization survey released in May 2020 projected …

The rural healthcare challenge
3 years, 6 months ago

The rural healthcare challenge

Hindustan Times  

Covid-19 made inroads into rural and peri-urban areas during the second wave, with rural districts accounting for 53% of new cases and 52% of Covid-19 deaths in May, according to a recent report. In contrast to urban areas, preventive care services, including maternal and child health services, family planning, and immunisation, have dominated rural health allocations, and curative care has …

Opinion | Why India needs to improve its rickety health infrastructure
3 years, 6 months ago

Opinion | Why India needs to improve its rickety health infrastructure

India TV News  

With the second wave of pandemic showing a marked decline, the number of daily fresh Covid cases across India fell to 2,08,921 on Tuesday, while 4,157 deaths were reported. Image Source : PTI Why India needs to improve its rickety health infrastructure Image Source : PTI Representative image of a COVID hospital in Bhagalpur, Bihar I think Soren made this …

Rush to hospitals, big gatherings worsen India COVID crisis: WHO
3 years, 7 months ago

Rush to hospitals, big gatherings worsen India COVID crisis: WHO

Live Mint  

Geneva: People in India are rushing unnecessarily to hospital, exacerbating a crisis over surging COVID-19 infections caused by mass gatherings, more contagious variants and low vaccination rates, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. The WHO is providing critical equipment and supplies to India, including 4,000 oxygen concentrators, which only require an energy source, WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said. "Currently, …

World Health Day 2021: What public health lessons can India learn from COVID-19 pandemic?
3 years, 8 months ago

World Health Day 2021: What public health lessons can India learn from COVID-19 pandemic?

Firstpost  

COVID-19 has renewed the focus on public health threats – making countries review their public health systems and healthcare infrastructure. World Health Day is celebrated on 7 April and it is the perfect occasion to review India’s response to COVID-19 and identify threats to our health security that can be rectified on a warfooting. Similarly, India needs to pass a …

India’s Battle Against Coronavirus: A Year of Stress and Success
3 years, 10 months ago

India’s Battle Against Coronavirus: A Year of Stress and Success

News 18  

An unsuspecting world woke to the advent of 2020 with the excitement of a new year’s dawn, amplified by the charm of its resonant numeric. These were accompanied by alarming predictions of imminent doom for India, in the form of a ferocious tidal wave of cases and millions of deaths, by modellers who extrapolated Western experience to the Indian population. …

Covid Vaccine, New Normal: Budget 2021 Must Find a Way to Re-Imagine Public Health System
3 years, 10 months ago

Covid Vaccine, New Normal: Budget 2021 Must Find a Way to Re-Imagine Public Health System

News 18  

The Union budget 2021-22 is expected to fund COVID vaccinations and other interventions that will speed up the return to “normal”. However, the budget could also provide a way to strategize for a re-imagined Indian public health system. The Rural Health Statistics for 2019, reveals that only 40% of health care facilities in the rural areas have critical frontline staff …

How Covid-19 will shape India's Budget 2021
3 years, 11 months ago

How Covid-19 will shape India's Budget 2021

India Today  

After being shaken by a pandemic, India’s upcoming budget is likely to allocate more money on health and related infrastructure. The government's budget gap will likely widen more than 7 per cent of the GDP this year as tax collection has dropped due to economic slowdown. Data shows that India's out-of-pocket expenditure is more than 60 per cent of India's …

The antidote for India’s healthcare woes
4 years ago

The antidote for India’s healthcare woes

Live Mint  

“This is indeed India!” remarked Mark Twain, as he tried to grasp the complex and nuanced Indian society. Considering that India’s healthcare spending, at 3.5% of gross domestic product, is significantly lower than peers, one would assume that higher government spending can alleviate all the pain points in the healthcare ecosystem. Similarly, India can work towards creating a Health Open …

Children's Day: COVID-19 showed us glaring holes in the public health system that risk the health of our children
4 years, 1 month ago

Children's Day: COVID-19 showed us glaring holes in the public health system that risk the health of our children

Firstpost  

Undernutrition continues to be associated with 50 percent of all under-five deaths and India accounts for third of the world’s stunted children according to the Global Nutrition Report 2018. As Oxfam’s Commitment to Reducing Inequality highlights, India’s spending on public health is the fourth lowest in the world. The result is an impact on healthcare delivery where access to routine …

Public Health In India During COVID: Experts Discuss What’s Needed
4 years, 1 month ago

Public Health In India During COVID: Experts Discuss What’s Needed

The Quint  

One of the major concerns in India has been the lack of data and information sharing of the available data between the government agencies and academic groups which could analyse and give recommendations for policy and strategies. “These findings probably reflect prevalent social mixing patterns in India but raise concerns about the possibility of enhanced transmission when poorly ventilated, crowded …

Maharashtra continues to lead the COVID-19 tally: Health Ministry
4 years, 2 months ago

Maharashtra continues to lead the COVID-19 tally: Health Ministry

The Hindu  

Maharashtra continues to lead the COVID-19 tally for new cases, highest number of deaths and recoveries in the past 24 hours, according to the Health Ministry on Sunday. It has contributed more than 20,000 cases followed by Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh with more than more than 8,000 and 7,000 cases respectively.’’ It said India has reported 92,043 recoveries in the …

COVID-19 pandemic: Private hospitals in India running losses, despite ‘high’ prices
4 years, 3 months ago

COVID-19 pandemic: Private hospitals in India running losses, despite ‘high’ prices

Firstpost  

The stark difference between treatment costs at private and public hospitals during the pandemic has rekindled the debate: How is it that private hospitals, despite their exorbitant bills, claim that they are charging patients their best By Anoo Bhuyan Max Healthcare tweeted a rate card in June indicating the minimum cost of various COVID-19 treatments at one of its Delhi …

COVID-19: A chain of blunders by the Central government
4 years, 3 months ago

COVID-19: A chain of blunders by the Central government

The Hindu  

“ The response to COVID-19 has been driven by political priorities rather than by public health and epidemiological expertise.” This is the retrospective assessment three well-known public health specialists have made of the manner in which the pandemic has been handled so far in the country. “The epidemic,” the scientist trio observe in TheAJTMH article, “is in different stages in …

Coronavirus COVID-19 has hit some of India's poorest regions hard. Some doctors worry they're overworked and under protected
4 years, 3 months ago

Coronavirus COVID-19 has hit some of India's poorest regions hard. Some doctors worry they're overworked and under protected

ABC  

With the remote eastern corner of India struck by COVID-19, Dr Deepak Kumar worked double shifts to treat those who could not be admitted to government hospitals. Doctors put under huge strain during pandemic Now, with more than 90,000 daily cases over the past week, India's coronavirus count is showing no signs of slowing down. Armed guards surround some doctors …

Covid-19 Derails Essential Healthcare Services Globally, Says WHO; Sharp Disruptions in India Too
4 years, 3 months ago

Covid-19 Derails Essential Healthcare Services Globally, Says WHO; Sharp Disruptions in India Too

News 18  

The World Health Organisation has published a first indicative survey on the impact of COVID-19 on health systems based on reports from 105 countries. Data collected from five regions between from March to June 2020 illustrate that almost every country experienced disruption in its health services, with low- and middle-income countries reporting the greatest difficulties. Most countries reported that many …

Opinion | Not every covid patient can afford to recover at home
4 years, 4 months ago

Opinion | Not every covid patient can afford to recover at home

Live Mint  

In early June, my 90-plus uncle developed a fever. The “home isolation packs” offered by private health providers of “covid-protocol trained and equipped” medical attendants are a cheaper and safer alternative. Journalist Puja Mehra points out that India’s total healthcare spending is 3.6% of gross domestic product and that the “average for OECD countries in 2018 was 8.8% of GDP”. …

World Population Day 2020: India need to focus on quality health care for all in the post-COVID-19 era
4 years, 5 months ago

World Population Day 2020: India need to focus on quality health care for all in the post-COVID-19 era

Firstpost  

With the private health sector failing to provide equitable healthcare, we should consider regulations to ensure it acts in the people’s interests and not in the quest for profits. As we highlight the population issues on World Population Day, it is also important to put India’s healthcare system under the scanner and address the barriers to delivering quality healthcare services …

In India, the deepening of the mental health crisis | Opinion
4 years, 5 months ago

In India, the deepening of the mental health crisis | Opinion

Hindustan Times  

Humanity has rarely experienced such a collective sense of vulnerability, a dual threat to the body and mind. Further, the findings of a countrywide National Mental Health Survey 2015-16 by the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences revealed that nearly 150 million Indians need active mental health care interventions while fewer than 30 million are seeking this support. Many …

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