NITI Aayog lays out a blueprint for pandemic preparedness to tackle any Covid-like outbreak in future
NITI Aayog has proposed enacting a new Public Health Emergency Management Act (PHEMA), setting up of a special pandemic preparedness and emergency response fund and creating an institutionalized empowered governance mechanism to tackle public health emergencies in future.
Recommendations are part of the Pandemic Preparedness and Emergency Response (PPER) framework, proposed by an expert group set up for the purpose after Covid 19 pandemic.
The idea is to put in place an emergency response which begins action on day zero and gives the required results to have disease prevention, mitigation and control in place within 100 days of the outbreak.
Dr Renu Swarup, former secretary, department of biotechnology chaired the expert group that had Dr Soumya Swaminathan, former chief scientist, WHO and former director general of the Indian Council of Medical Research, Dr Sujeet Singh, former director, National Centre for Disease Control as members and Rajib Kumar Sen, senior adviser (health), NITI Aayog as member secretary.
“Based on our learnings from earlier epidemics and the key actions taken and strategy followed to manage the COVID pandemic, it is evident that a special focus must be placed on sustaining the efforts made and addressing the challenges faced with a well thought-out action plan that can respond to a public health emergency in the shortest period of time,” the Aayog said in the report.
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