COVID-19 and Health Care Services in Punjab: Consequences and Challenges

Varinder Sharma ()
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Varinder Sharma: Institute for Development and Communication (IDC)

A chapter in Covid-19 Pandemic and Economic Development, 2021, pp 163-179 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In the glimpses of history, Punjab faced many epidemics during nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Presently state is facing a pandemic Covid-19 which is a global disease and it has affected all the developed and less developed nations. The Covid-19 has revealed the weaknesses in efficiency and equity of the public and private health care services. The public health sector with limited infrastructure and manpower is trying to treat the corona patients of vulnerable section of society. It seems the socialised medicine system is the only hope to cop up with disasters in future and it should be strengthened.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-4442-9_14

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