Global Coordinator, Peoples Health Movement, and Adjunct Faculty, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras, Tamil Nadu, India.
Indian J Public Health. 2020 Jun;64(Supplement):S91-S93. doi: 10.4103/ijph.IJPH_507_20.
Some nations in the world and some states in India have had more success in containing this pandemic. Recent efforts in strengthening the health sector have focused largely on reforms in modes of financing, but as the pandemic brings home to us, the main challenge in India remains the challenge of the organization of public services using a health systems understanding. A close to community comprehensive primary health care, quality assurance, and planned excess capacity in public health systems, a more robust disease surveillance systems that can integrate data on new outbreaks and the indigenous technological capacity to scale up innovation and manufacture of essential health commodities are some of our most important requirements for both epidemic preparedness and response.
世界上一些国家和印度的一些邦在控制这一疫情方面取得了更大的成功。最近在加强卫生部门方面的努力主要侧重于改革供资模式，但正如这场大流行让我们认识到的，印度面临的主要挑战仍然是利用卫生系统的理解来组织公共服务。接近社区的综合初级卫生保健、质量保证和公共卫生系统中有计划的超额能力、更强大的疾病监测系统，可以整合新疫情数据以及扩大创新和制造基本卫生商品的本土技术能力，是我们在大流行防范和应对方面的一些最重要的要求。
