19/05/2021 - Health

Pls review

kindly review and give suggestions mam/sir

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.

Kindly review 

Kindly provide feedback.