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COVID-19 and Health Care Services in Punjab: Consequences and Challenges

In: Covid-19 Pandemic and Economic Development

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  • Varinder Sharma

    (Institute for Development and Communication (IDC))

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In the glimpses of history, Punjab faced many epidemics during nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Presently state is facing a pandemic Covid-19 which is a global disease and it has affected all the developed and less developed nations. The Covid-19 has revealed the weaknesses in efficiency and equity of the public and private health care services. The public health sector with limited infrastructure and manpower is trying to treat the corona patients of vulnerable section of society. It seems the socialised medicine system is the only hope to cop up with disasters in future and it should be strengthened.

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  • Varinder Sharma, 2021. "COVID-19 and Health Care Services in Punjab: Consequences and Challenges," Springer Books, in: Sukhpal Singh & Lakhwinder Singh & Kamal Vatta (ed.), Covid-19 Pandemic and Economic Development, pages 163-179, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-16-4442-9_14
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-4442-9_14
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