Scientists and public health experts, while appreciating the responsiveness of Kerala’s public health system, have yet again urged the State to invest in basic and clinical research, data development and intelligent analytics, so that clear patterns on disease burden and its distribution and mortality analysis can be made.
For the second consecutive day, at the seminar on Kerala’s successes in managing public health emergencies organised as part of Keraleeyam, health experts called for the State to look at the inequities in access to healthcare within the State and how the vulnerable communities continued to have poor access to healthcare and poorer outcomes.
Soumya Swaminathan, former chief scientist of World Health Organisation and chairperson of M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, said that Kerala needed to invest much more in basic science as well as clinical research and have resource persons trained in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research for fine tuning a pre-emptive response to future pandemics.
