Introduction to the COVID-19: Learning Diary from India
ACCESS Health India has developed a learning diary which records India’s response to COVID-19 along with its understanding of the virus. The aim of the diary is to enable tracing of legislative, judicial, and social response to the epidemic at a country …
Introduction to the COVID – 19: Learning Diary from India
In December 2019, an acute respiratory viral infection was first identified in Wuhan city in China. Ever since then the disease has infected over 4.9 million people, killed over 320,000, and brought life to a standstill in several countries.[1] It has forced …
India’s Covid-19 Testing Capacity Must Grow by a Factor of 10
The Center for Global Development, in partnership with ACCESS Health India, has recently released a publication on the subject of India’s Covid-19 testing supply chain. Many experts believe that a tenfold increase in the country’s testing rate is necessary to keep positivity …
The Private Sector Response to COVID-19 in India
This is the second in a series of blog posts by ACCESS Health India Country Director Dr. Krishna Reddy. Dr. Reddy is a board certified cardiologist with a long and distinguished career, marked by his leadership of the CARE Hospital Group which …
An Urgent Need To Reopen Medical Care For All
A shorter version of this article was originally published in The Hill. Each day in America and in most countries around the world brings with it a new story of crowded hospitals packed with panicked patients and exhausted health workers. But there is …
The Right Understanding of Covid-19 Paves Way for the Right Response
This is the second in a series of blog posts by ACCESS Health India Country Director Dr. Krishna Reddy. Dr. Reddy is a board certified cardiologist with a long and distinguished career, marked by his leadership of the CARE Hospital Group which …
How to Meet the Health Needs of People in the Time of Covid-19?
This is the first in a series of blog posts by ACCESS Health India Country Director Dr. Krishna Reddy. Dr. Reddy is a board certified cardiologist with a long and distinguished career, marked by his leadership of the CARE Hospital Group which …
Telemedicine and Healthcare: The impact of Covid-19
The novel coronavirus outbreak brought with it a paradigm shift in how healthcare is delivered, with a marked increase in the number of tele-consultations offered to patients as extreme physical distancing orders are put in place. The shift is changing the face …
Improving Patient Engagement for Seniors Amidst the Covid-19 Crisis
While physical distancing and other safety measures are necessary to curb the spread of COVID-19, they can also leave seniors more isolated and disengaged from their families and communities. ACCESS Health Southeast Asia and Aging2.0 are co-hosted a webinar to address these …
ACCESS Digital Health Lead Pankaj Gupta on Telemedicine in the Face of Covid-19
Dr. Pankaj Gupta, head of ACCESS Health’s digital health program based in the ACCESS Health India office, was recently featured in a webinar on how telemedicine could be a game changer in the Covid-19 crisis. In India, as in many other countries, …
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