Open AccessIndia's need for long-term solutions to COVID-19-like pandemics: A policy paper by Organized Medicine Academic Guild
Author(s) -
Sunil Kumar Raina,
Raman Kumar,
Sundaram Natrajan,
Ishwar Gilada,
Suneela Garg,
A C Dhariwal,
Sagar Galvankar,
Sunil Khaparde,
Ramesh R. Bhatt,
Uday Bodhankar,
Praveen Agarwal
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_2220_20
Subject(s) - mindset , pandemic , guild , covid-19 , medicine , term (time) , public health , virology , outbreak , disease , nursing , philosophy , epistemology , pathology , quantum mechanics , habitat , infectious disease (medical specialty) , biology , ecology , physics
The entire world seems to have responded to COVID-19 pandemic in a knee-jerk manner with a short mindset without building on the existing strengths of public health infrastructure. National governments cannot be blamed for this as we are dealing with a crisis that comes once in a lifetime. Realising this, the Organized Medicine Academic Guild (OMAG) an association of major health associations in this country has suggested measures for long-term solutions to COVID-19-like pandemics in the form of a policy paper by OMAG.