In 2022, the goal will be to ramp up public health infrastructure

The first of the year-ender series takes a dive into the health care crisis that India faced this year and what's in store as 2022 rings in

The year gone by was a litmus test for India’s health infrastructure, laying bare not just the chinks in the armour, but the glaring gaps in its health delivery system. The second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in the months of May and June 2021 revealed just how unprepared the country was to tackle the dizzying number of hospitalisations, or even to provide basic oxygen support to patients with severe disease.

But now India is much better prepared, say public health experts. According to them, the first six months of 2022 will continue to see the stress on wearing masks