India's need for long-term solutions to COVID-19-like pandemics: A policy paper by Organized Medicine Academic Guild

Sunil K Raina; Raman Kumar; S Natrajan; Ishwar Gilada; Suneela Garg; A C Dhariwal; Sagar Galvankar; Sunil D Khaparde; Ramesh Bhatt; Uday Bodhankar; Praveen Agarwal

doi:10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_2220_20

India's need for long-term solutions to COVID-19-like pandemics: A policy paper by Organized Medicine Academic Guild

J Family Med Prim Care. 2021 Apr;10(4):1508-1511. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_2220_20. Epub 2021 Apr 29.

Authors

Sunil K Raina¹, Raman Kumar², S Natrajan³, Ishwar Gilada⁴, Suneela Garg⁵, A C Dhariwal⁶, Sagar Galvankar⁷, Sunil D Khaparde⁸, Ramesh Bhatt⁹, Uday Bodhankar¹⁰, Praveen Agarwal¹¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Community Medicine, Dr. R.P. Government Medical College, Tanda, Himachal Pradesh, India.
² Academy of Family Physicians of India, New Delhi, India.
³ Aditya Jyot Eye Hospital, Wadala, Mumbai, India.
⁴ India Unison Medicare and Research Centre, Alibhai Premji Marg, Grant Road-E, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
⁵ Department of Community Medicine, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India.
⁶ National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP), Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Florida, USA.
⁷ Department of Emergency Medicine, Sarasota Memorial Hospital Florida State University, Florida, USA.
⁸ Former Deputy Director General TB Control, Father Muller Medical College, Manglore, Karnataka, India.
⁹ Department of Dermatology, Father Muller Medical College, Manglore, Karnataka, India.
¹⁰ Department of Emergency Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
¹¹ Bodhankar Childrens Hospital, Sharhari, Central Bazaar Road, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India.

Abstract

The entire world seems to have responded to COVID-19 pandemic in a knee-jerk manner with a short mindset without building on the existing strengths of public health infrastructure. National governments cannot be blamed for this as we are dealing with a crisis that comes once in a lifetime. Realising this, the Organized Medicine Academic Guild (OMAG) an association of major health associations in this country has suggested measures for long-term solutions to COVID-19-like pandemics in the form of a policy paper by OMAG.

Keywords: COVID-19-like pandemics; Organized Medicine Academic Guild; long-term solutions; paper; policy.