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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | The importance of affordable healthcare for all and other key lessons from the pandemic -Chapal Mehra & Lancelot Pinto

The importance of affordable healthcare for all and other key lessons from the pandemic -Chapal Mehra & Lancelot Pinto

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published Published on Dec 29, 2022   modified Modified on Dec 29, 2022

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It is important to learn from the Covid-19 crisis and transform policies and systems. Or we are destined to repeat our mistakes?

Humans tend to limit memories of horrors faced in the past as a coping mechanism. In our hurry to return to normalcy, as the world and India learns to live with Covid-19, we should not forget the lessons this crisis taught us. The most important of these is the urgent need for investment and infrastructure-building in our health systems.

The pandemic showed that India’s health system is in tatters. Despite having a doctor-population ratio that exceeds the World Health Organization’s recommendation, the Indian health system is overburdened and overworked. This is possibly due to a lack of homogeneity in access to doctors across the country, the disparities in the access to private versus public healthcare, and the unaffordability of healthcare to a majority of Indians. The availability of doctors to serve all seems to constantly surpass need.

Access is key and often unaffordable to millions of Indians who struggle on a daily basis. This struggle was magnified during the Covid-19 pandemic. In public hospitals, the number of beds available per 1,000 people is 0.5 while 12 states, which account for 70% of the country’s population, lie below the national average. The number of ventilators and critical-care beds is even lower.

Should this lack of universal access come as a surprise? India’s health budget is just above 1% of the Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, ranking 107th of 188 countries. It is time that the country prioritises its citizens’ most valuable asset – health. The public health system is overburdened and private health care is unaffordable. Here, funding implementation through robust systems and accountability are the pillars of change in policy decisions and overall health system overhaul. This is the first lesson.

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