NausheenAIR 9 · CSE 2023 · 31 wordsTheir whole copy
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COVID-19 pandemic brought to fore the shortcomings in disaster management plans of the world as they largely ignore public health disasters.
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COVID-19 pandemic highlighted importance of disaster management in public health
Highlights
→ (1) shortcomings in the Disaster Management Act, 2005
as public health comes under concurrent list, so centre
cannot impose plans on state.
→ (2) making proper guidelines for health sector - disease
outbreak.
→ (3) Planning and prevention regarding
disaster of public health.
Key strategies and challenges for
managing pandemics :-
→ strategies
→ Prevention
- Following One-
Heath Approach
- surveillance centres
for tracking genomic
traces of new variants
→ Mitigation
- Proper mechanism
to deal with testing
and tracing of any
disease.
- Action Plans of the
hospitals to deal with
additional burden
→ Global
collaborations.
(eg INSACOG)
→ challenges
→ (1) Proper funding to
research and development
in both vaccine and surveillance
→ (2) Inadequate health sector
capacities in rural areas.
(3) Only 1.6 lakh hospitals
for 70% population in India.
→ (3) WHO - the main centre for
disease prevention under sway
of major global power (eg) China.
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