NEW DELHI - India is gearing up for one of the biggest Covid-19 vaccination drives in the world, with 300 million people expected to receive doses in the first phase lasting till July.
They will include doctors, nurses and other front-line workers, such as the police and municipal workers, and those above 65.
The federal health ministry has released guidelines asking that 100 people be vaccinated a day at each vaccination centre.
With India looking at half a dozen vaccine candidates, the federal government is also encouraging states to choose one vaccine per district to simplify what is expected to be a mammoth exercise rivalling how the country of 1.35 billion prepares for elections.
OneTrust DataGuidance confirmed, on 14 December 2020, with Aadya Misra, Associate at Spice Route Legal, that the National Institution for Transforming India ( NITI Aayog ) had issued a white paper on public health surveillance in India, in the wake of the Government s recently established National Digital Health Mission. In particular, Misra noted, The NITI Aayog has suggested the implementation of a surveillance system to bolster public health systems in the country, which comes at a time where there is presently no comprehensive data protection framework. Individual electronic health records, with unique health identifiers, will form the basis of this intelligent surveillance system which, in turn, will analyse and create action plans for health management.
A sector that needs to be nursed back to health
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Nursing education in India suffers poor quality of training, inequitable distribution, and non-standardised practices
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Nursing education in India suffers poor quality of training, inequitable distribution, and non-standardised practices
The year 2020 has been designated as “International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife”. Nurses and midwives will be central to achieving universal health coverage in India. India’s nursing workforce is about two-thirds of its health workforce. Its ratio of 1.7 nurses per 1,000 population is 43% less than the World Health Organisation norm; it needs 2.4 million nurses to meet the norm. In addition to the low number of nurses, the sector is dogged by structural challenges that lead to poor quality of training, inequitable distribution, and non-standardised practices. Here are the challenges and the potential solutions to them.
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