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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Recovery from pandemic may take years. Government must invest in welfare projects -Nishtha Tewari

Recovery from pandemic may take years. Government must invest in welfare projects -Nishtha Tewari

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published Published on Jan 19, 2021   modified Modified on Jan 19, 2021

-The Indian Express

The current scenario is ideal for policymakers and practitioners to drive home the importance of health spending and institutional development

With the first batch of anti-COVID vaccines being rolled out, the mood of the nation seems to be upbeat as it bids farewell to the pain and anguish of last year. The emergency-use approval to the vaccine developed by Oxford University and the Swedish-British pharma major AstraZeneca, manufactured in India by Pune-based Serum Institute, and Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin has sent positive signals to the market. The debate between the two manufacturers in the aftermath of the approval speaks of attempts to dominate the market. In a crisis of this magnitude, relief units try to be fast moving while addressing the needs of as many people as they can. Vaccine developers and marketers see themselves as no different from such relief-units; they, however, desire economic gains as well. There is, therefore, both an economic impetus as well as an altruistic impulse for vaccine-developers to push their products – there’s also the promise of “instant returns”. Such a situation demands regulatory intervention. A balance needs to be struck between the urge for return to normalcy and the patience required to see this crisis through.

Public health practitioners know that regulatory approval is merely the beginning of a long journey towards effective health provisioning. A well-defined COVID-19 immunisation policy is, therefore, likely to be the first step in a rebuilding programme that could span decades. The impacts on the mental and physical well-being of the direct and indirect survivors of COVID-19 will have a bearing in the years to come. The role of frontline health workers (FLHWs) and medical practitioners was critical during the crisis, especially in the rural areas. The demands of these workers for fair wages and labour recognition remains to be addressed. Moreover, the real scale of the pandemic’s impact on rural areas and migrant economies is yet to be ascertained. Along with the redressal of the immediate health crisis, it is incumbent upon policymakers and practitioners to take lessons from developments in the past 10 months and overcome the shortcomings in the country’s welfare mechanisms that have been exposed by the pandemic. Strengthening overburdened health systems and guaranteeing health workers due protections is an urgent imperative to ensure that the vaccination programme is a long-term success.

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The Indian Express, 19 January, 2021, https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/coronavirus-recovery-covid-vacine-rollout-immunisation-policy-7151738/


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