Primary health to insurance: Five non-Covid-19 areas to focus on in 2021 (Business Standard India)

Business Standard India published an article stating that Covid-19 demanded the single-minded focus of India’s entire healthcare infrastructure all through 2020. In fact, the pandemic hogged so much attention across all aspects of our lives that most other issues of public health were put on the back-burner. Senior Research Fellow Purnima Menon said that India’s progress in the National Nutrition Mission took a hit in 2020. “For a few months, the health and nutrition frontline workers also supported Covid-19 efforts on surveying, tracking, tracing, and more. Various other services were stalled.” Many of the nutrition mission activities, including counseling, measuring children, and organizing group gatherings, require person-to-person contact. “All of these were deeply affected by the pandemic and the resulting lockdowns,” Menon said.