Little co-relation between health spend and Covid-related results: Ind-Ra

While hospitals and beds are essential to manage case load, administrative intervention is a must for mass-scale testing and arresting the spread of the disease, the report says

While health infrastructure, such as hospital beds and availability of doctors, plays a crucial in fighting the pandemic, the final outcome depends on state-level political leadership to leverage existing and stepped-up health expenditure, a report by India Ratings and Research has said. 

The lack of administrative initiative explains why there have been mixed results and little one-to-one correspondence between health expenditure, infrastructure and Covid-19 related outcomes, the report said.

“Hospital beds and doctors are essential to take care of the Covid-19 case load, but to detect and prevent the spread of the pandemic, mass-scale testing and tracing is required, which