Dhar Ruby, Jee Babban, Karmakar Subhradip
Department of Biochemistry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India.
Risk Manag Healthc Policy. 2021 Feb 26;14:827-833. doi: 10.2147/RMHP.S291084. eCollection 2021.
With its 1.3 billion population and faced with the COVID-19 pandemic, India is at the junction of two crucial decisions, balancing healthcare and the economy. To prevent the community spread of the virus, the Indian Government imposed a nationwide lockdown. Though initially successful to some extent in containing the disease spread, the extended lockdown eventually leads to a spiraling out effect resulting in the slowdown of the economy, which, in turn, lead to widespread consequences affecting the lives of millions of people, mostly those at the base of the social pyramid. We investigated the implications of few government policies taken during this pandemic and their impact on society, thereby suggesting short-term crisis management with long-term solutions. Here, we present a comprehensive account of Indian policy in dealing with the COVID-19 crisis, balancing both economic and public health. We also explored a future contingency plan for risk mitigation along with few recommendations. This viewpoint will be useful for effective healthcare management and the economy in Asia's populous nation in the COVID-19 and prepare for a future crisis of this nature.
印度拥有13亿人口，且面临新冠疫情，正处于两个关键决策的交汇点，即在医疗保健和经济之间寻求平衡。为防止病毒在社区传播，印度政府实施了全国范围的封锁。尽管最初在一定程度上成功遏制了疾病传播，但延长的封锁最终导致了一种螺旋式的负面影响，致使经济放缓，进而产生了广泛的后果，影响了数百万人的生活，其中大多数是社会金字塔底层的人群。我们研究了疫情期间政府采取的一些政策的影响及其对社会的冲击，从而提出了兼具短期危机管理和长期解决方案的建议。在此，我们全面阐述了印度应对新冠疫情危机的政策，兼顾了经济和公共卫生两方面。我们还探索了未来的风险缓解应急计划并给出了一些建议。这一观点对于这个亚洲人口大国在新冠疫情期间进行有效的医疗管理和经济调控，并为未来此类性质的危机做好准备将有所助益。
