Category: Public Health

We cannot stop Covid from what comes naturally to it (mutation), and we will have to make adjustments if we too want to survive as a species

While there is palpable excitement in the world about finally being able to stop the march of that monster, this does not mean that Covid-19 will go away

By Dr R Neerunjun Gopee

In the context of the pandemic, being old is seen as just one more comorbidity. It should not be

All health systems are a non-stop work in progress. We just have to go on improving across the system, from the bureaucratese to the technical. In other words,

As we are shortly to open our borders, we must be fully prepared to cope with a possible second surge – this is the lesson that the more

By Dr R Neerunjun Gopee

It is better for the country and the government to be overcautious than to be foolhardy and irresponsible

  By Rory Horner India could help overcome ‘vaccine nationalism’ because it is the major supplier of medicines to the global south Shutterstock/ManoejPaateel

  By John J Reilly

The lives and safety of people are more important than buttressing the finances of the hotel industry in the present state of the Covid-19 pandemic in the world

Our Waterloo is awaiting at the next bend – especially when the enemy is invisible and elusive

Matters of The moment

There is a saying that one should ‘Work like a professional, but live like a human being’ in order to live a balanced life. A majority of doctors

The specificities of the Indian health, medical and epidemiological contexts are contributing to the robustness of the Indian response, which has so far been able to maintain a