A pandemic may not be the right time to judge healthcare systems. The best can collapse under the burden of unforeseen demand. The most poorly run may just rally round to deliver some kind of result. But for us in India, now seven months into dealing with the pandemic, this is the time to think about what the future holds if we can’t fix public health facilities.
There should be little doubt anymore that for a system to be effective it should be able to provide equal access and quality. The novel coronavirus has shown us that diseases. . .