The year 2020 will be etched in public memory as one where the world found itself amid an unprecedented public health crisis. The out break of Covid-19 exerted unimaginable pressure on our health care systems.
The Government of India put forth a strong national response in coordination with states, including imposing the nationwide lockdown and invoking the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, and rapid deployment of critical interventions such as contact tracing and active case finding undertaken on a mission mode to identify, isolate and provide timely care to Covid-19 patients.
Our healthcare workers from across different programmes, pulled in to combat SARS-CoV-2, worked diligently, day and night to ensure continuity of healthcare services. Despite the hardships, the spirit of collaboration between different sections of society – the healthcare providers, civil society as well as the general public – in tackling the pandemic was inspirational.
For a country as vast as India, this unified action will serve as a learning to ensure similar urgency towards other health challenges like tuberculosis, given that India is home to over a quarter of the global TB cases with an estimated 27.1 lakh patients in 2019.
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