President of the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) and eminent cardiologist Dr. K. Srinath Reddy, who was in the city for the inauguration of the new campus of Indian Institute of Public Health-Hyderabad (IIPH-H), highlights the importance of improving primary health care and public health management with COVID pandemic having exposed the gaps in health system in this exclusive interview.
What has COVID taught us?
There are several lessons COVID has taught us. Unless you have an efficient and equitable public health system functioning reliably in a steady state even without a public health emergency, we will not be able to generate a swift, strong and sustained response. We need to have a strong public health capacity at all levels, right from policy and planning to ground level infrastructure.
