While India needs more doctors, technology-enabled community health workers, nurses, other frontline workers can perform many primary care functions, liberating us from an entirely doctor-dependent model, K Srinath Reddy, Public Health Foundation President writes
When the Covid-19 virus landed in India in end-January 2020, accompanying a group of students arriving in Kerala from Wuhan, the world had no inkling that the virus was on a prolonged mission of global conquest. Several parts of the world are reeling from a resurgent virus, even at year-end, and the global economy is on the mat struggling to beat the referee’s count sounded by the International Monetary Fund.
(This story appears in the 01 January, 2021 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)