The COVID-19 pandemic revealed significant shortcomings in India’s public health sector. In a piece for World Economic Forum, Suchi Kedia, Community Specialist, World Economic Forum and Harshita Agrawal, Associate at Artha Global, outline how the COVID-19 pandemic has provided several lessons on how India can develop its urban public health infrastructure. 

Excerpts below:

“While the pandemic can arguably be considered a black swan event, it has exposed deeper cracks in its cities public health sector.”

“As we rebuild from the pandemic, it becomes important to create and monitor certain thresholds for public health infrastructure based on population.”

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