How Healthcare Worked in Covid Times and how it could be enhanced

 

We were not ready!

And when I say “WE” I don’t mean just India, we as a world were not ready for something so catastrophic, so inhuman and so horrific. While we were anticipating that the next biggest thing is going to be shortage of oil, or shortage of precious metals, but we never, even in out darkest nightmares anticipated that it will be the shortage of oxygen. Be it the world’s most advance countries like America or China, or the one’s on the lower end of the spectrum like Africa or India. All were equally hit and derailed. Lots of gaps and cuts were found in the healthcare system of all the countries.

It was the biggest pandemic since the outbreak of the Spanish flu back in 1918. The virus was something which made us realise how much work is done in the healthcare industry and how much is to be done. We all faced a shortage of beds, ventilators, oxygen, and even syringes were in short supplies at one point. But as they say, all evil brings a good with them. The governments of the world finally came out of their sleep and took some really great steps to minimise the risks and fatalities. 

Portable ventilators, synthetic oxygen plants, drug company licensing all were seen at an all-time high, the government did all that they can but as a citizen it is our responsibility too, to stay safe and keep people around us safe too.

Now talking about changes which happened in the Healthcare sector due to Covid, Our healthcare industry geared up and became one of the first few countries to actually produce the vaccine against the Corona Virus. We are also way ahead in the vaccination drive as India is successful in flattening the curve so quickly. Not only were we the producers, we also exported the vaccine, which was again a great initiative in the make in India initiative. 1,85,90,68,616 people in India have taken the vaccine till now.

This little virus proved that there is no better wealth than a good health and that is a lesson we should never forget and always stay thankful to the covid warriors, who didn’t thought of the fatality of the virus for a second and kept on serving the nation when the nation needed them the most.