Fault Lines in India’s COVID-19 Management: Lessons Learned and Future Recommendations
Ruby Dhar,1 Karthikeyan Pethusamy,1 Babban Jee,2 Subhradip Karmakar1 1All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India; 2Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Government of India, New Delhi, 110001, IndiaCorrespondence: Subhradip Karmakar Email subhradip.k@aii...
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| description | Ruby Dhar,1 Karthikeyan Pethusamy,1 Babban Jee,2 Subhradip Karmakar1 1All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India; 2Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Government of India, New Delhi, 110001, IndiaCorrespondence: Subhradip Karmakar Email subhradip.k@aiims.eduAbstract: With about 0.4– 0.5 million COVID cases diagnosed every single day in a row over the past three weeks back in May 2021, India was at the epicenter of the global viral rampage. The catastrophe of this crisis was unprecedented, pushing the health care system to its breaking point. Although significant progress has been made in identifying these highly transmissible variants, what is somewhat lacking is the competence to exploit this information for risk mitigation and effective disease management through an integrated nationwide coordinated approach. With a positivity rate of 15– 20% (April–May 2021) and the healthcare system pushed to its limit, accompanied by increased mortality, the situation was rather grim then. Though the central command scrambled all its resources and logistics to streamline the supply chain, the efforts were insufficient in response to the ongoing crisis due to a disproportionate rise in the case. We examined the current scenario emerging from this 2nd COVID wave and identified the possible lacunae. We also suggested few recommendations that may be adopted to avoid similar failures in the future.Keywords: COVID-19, pandemic, India, healthcare, economy, vaccine |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4e34616878514135a1115c144306f3ed2022-12-21T19:54:48ZengDove Medical PressRisk Management and Healthcare Policy1179-15942021-10-01Volume 144379439270107Fault Lines in India’s COVID-19 Management: Lessons Learned and Future RecommendationsDhar RPethusamy KJee BKarmakar SRuby Dhar,1 Karthikeyan Pethusamy,1 Babban Jee,2 Subhradip Karmakar1 1All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India; 2Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Government of India, New Delhi, 110001, IndiaCorrespondence: Subhradip Karmakar Email subhradip.k@aiims.eduAbstract: With about 0.4– 0.5 million COVID cases diagnosed every single day in a row over the past three weeks back in May 2021, India was at the epicenter of the global viral rampage. The catastrophe of this crisis was unprecedented, pushing the health care system to its breaking point. Although significant progress has been made in identifying these highly transmissible variants, what is somewhat lacking is the competence to exploit this information for risk mitigation and effective disease management through an integrated nationwide coordinated approach. With a positivity rate of 15– 20% (April–May 2021) and the healthcare system pushed to its limit, accompanied by increased mortality, the situation was rather grim then. Though the central command scrambled all its resources and logistics to streamline the supply chain, the efforts were insufficient in response to the ongoing crisis due to a disproportionate rise in the case. We examined the current scenario emerging from this 2nd COVID wave and identified the possible lacunae. We also suggested few recommendations that may be adopted to avoid similar failures in the future.Keywords: COVID-19, pandemic, India, healthcare, economy, vaccinehttps://www.dovepress.com/fault-lines-in-indias-covid-19-management-lessons-learned-and-future-r-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-RMHPcovid-19pandemicindiahealthcareeconomyvaccine |
| spellingShingle | Dhar R Pethusamy K Jee B Karmakar S Fault Lines in India’s COVID-19 Management: Lessons Learned and Future Recommendations Risk Management and Healthcare Policy covid-19 pandemic india healthcare economy vaccine |
| title | Fault Lines in India’s COVID-19 Management: Lessons Learned and Future Recommendations |
| title_full | Fault Lines in India’s COVID-19 Management: Lessons Learned and Future Recommendations |
| title_fullStr | Fault Lines in India’s COVID-19 Management: Lessons Learned and Future Recommendations |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fault Lines in India’s COVID-19 Management: Lessons Learned and Future Recommendations |
| title_short | Fault Lines in India’s COVID-19 Management: Lessons Learned and Future Recommendations |
| title_sort | fault lines in india rsquo s covid 19 management lessons learned and future recommendations |
| topic | covid-19 pandemic india healthcare economy vaccine |
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