Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care (Jan 2021)

India's need for long-term solutions to COVID-19-like pandemics: A policy paper by Organized Medicine Academic Guild

  • Sunil K Raina,
  • Raman Kumar,
  • S Natrajan,
  • Ishwar Gilada,
  • Suneela Garg,
  • A C Dhariwal,
  • Sagar Galvankar,
  • Sunil D Khaparde,
  • Ramesh Bhatt,
  • Uday Bodhankar,
  • Praveen Agarwal

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_2220_20
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 4
pp. 1508 – 1511

Abstract

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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.

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