To ensure preparedness for combating COVID-19 and potential future outbreaks of diseases in India, the NITI Aayog has presented a proposal in a white paper released on Vision 2035 Public Health Surveillance in India. The key points from the proposal are summarized in this article. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the forefront, the importance of public health surveillance in the country. This has prompted the government to initiate plans to strengthen India’s public surveillance system.
As a step towards this goal, the NITI Aayog has proposed the formulation of a public health surveillance platform. The proposal aims to leverage healthcare digitization tools, such as citizen-centric electronic health records (EHR) and unique health identifiers (UHID) to store and analyze crucial public health data. Such a platform can act as a repository and auto-generate useful reports. NITI Aayog…
