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cord-315801-hurpcc4e	Yadava, Om Prakash	COVID-19: are there lessons?	2020-07-31		.txt	text/plain	1630	81	55	In fact, the entire official response to the pandemic was governed by all and sundry including paediatricians, gastroenterologists, dental surgeons and the likes, rather than the public health experts, who were nowhere to be seen, even in the horizon. We are still lucky that even though the disease is ravaging in the urban areas, it has largely spared the rural hinterland, but I fear it may not be for long, and at which stage, the deficiencies of the primary healthcare infrastructure in terms of primary health centres, community health centres and district hospitals will be exposed further. Lesson: Government must increase its allocation to health sector to at least 5% of GDP and focus on strengthening the primary care. This attitude needs to be changed and profit, albeit reasonable, should be accepted as ethical, moral and in fact a necessity for a vibrant and effective private healthcare system, to meet the health needs of the society.	./cache/cord-315801-hurpcc4e.txt	./txt/cord-315801-hurpcc4e.txt