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Central Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr Harsh Vardhan, virtually addressed the World Bank- International Monetary Fund (IMF) annual meeting.
Highlights:
Highlights: - The theme of the meeting was “Unleashing the South Asian Century through Human Capital for All” and “Investing in Covid-19 Vaccines and Primary Healthcare Delivery System"
- India has been following a pre-emptive, proactive, and graded response characterised by a “Whole of Society, Whole of Government” approach.
- Innovation, ability and agility of the private sector have supported the efforts to fight COVID-19 in a major way.
- PPEs, N95 masks, Oxygen, ventilators, diagnostic tests kits were developed.
- Medical infrastructure seen exponential growth, from having one lab in March, 2020 to around 2000 laboratories as on date with nearly half of the labs were from the private sector. The same is for dedicated ICU facilities & isolation centres.
- India is making use of Information Technology (IT) in virtually every aspect of COVID management- AarogyaSetu app and ITIHAS, cellular-based tracking technology has been used for surveillance and identification of potential clusters, RT-PCR app for testing, facility app for managing information on admitted patients, all integrated with a single COVID portal.
- Aarogya Setu App is currently being used by more than 170 million Indians making it one of the most downloaded apps in the world
- The present research agenda for COVID19 has been to provide an affordable vaccine as well as to ensure its equitable distribution
- Currently, three Indian pharma companies in partnership with foreign/domestic research institutes are expediting the trials of the vaccine.
- Under the leadership of our Honourable Prime Minister, we have constituted a National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration which is working on all aspects, as well as designing innovative approaches to distribute vaccines in rural and remote regions.
- India has made huge strides in improving the health of our people in the last two decades
- And now, India's will be critical to fighting COVID-19 especially when it comes to making vaccines at large scale for the whole world.
Published date : 23 Oct 2020 04:40PM
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