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Healthcare: 5 Non-COVID Areas To Focus On In 2021 -Anoo Bhuyan

-IndiaSpend.com

Many health issues were neglected as COVID-19 hogged global attention in 2020. Apart from the COVID-19 vaccine, what other health issues should be in focus in 2021?

New Delhi: COVID-19 demanded the single-minded focus of India's entire healthcare infrastructure all through 2020. In fact, the pandemic hogged so much attention across all aspects of our lives that most other issues of public health were put on the back-burner.

Issues such as tackling tuberculosis and health insurance, which could have been addressed in 2020, were sidelined. As India's entire healthcare system was forced to forego all issues other than COVID-19, the nation would have to catch up on matters overlooked in the last year while facing new challenges such as mass vaccination and ramping up health infrastructure.

"The COVID-19 pandemic is a crisis," said Chandrakant Lahariya, public health expert and author of Till We Win, a book on the current pandemic. "Many things were beyond our control but it will be tragic if we do not learn. This is an opportunity... everyone's attention is on healthcare, from the general public to elected officials. Never let a crisis go to waste."

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