Monica Das Gupta quoted in LiveMint on India's Lagged Public Health System
Surbhai Bhatia and Sneha Alexander, reporters for LiveMint, recently published an article regarding India's public health system reformation, especially under the impact of COVID-19 pandemic.
According to Bhatia and Alexander, "the improvements in health systems were not uniform with some developing countries such as India lagging behind others in ramping up their public health systems.'' They quoted from Faculty Associate Monica Das Gupta's 2005 study on India's public health serious neglect, as "when Japan was borrowing from the best European practices to create a world-class public health infrastructure across its colonies (Korea and Taiwan), the British were content to limit such investments in British residential areas and cantonments." The life-threatening situation now under the COVID-19 makes it even more urgent that improving public health system cannot afford delay in any second.