Attack on epidemic: Monitoring will be done from superbugs to viruses, India started work on national plan with WHO
Attack on the epidemic: India has been facing infectious diseases even before the Corona period. Apart from corona, adeno, influenza (flu), parainfluenza, parvovirus B19, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and rhinovirus (common cold) are affecting thousands of people every year.
To prevent future epidemics like Corona, the Central Government has started work on the National Epidemic Policy. The government, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), is preparing a National Pandemic Preparedness Plan, which will soon be shared with all states. In this, through superbugs, monitoring of various types of viruses and AI technology, information about suspected patients will be shared from the district to the state and central agencies in Delhi in a single day. A senior official of the Health Ministry said that the government has decided to prepare a framework, through which we will know in time which respiratory virus is being found in patients in which district of the country and what is spread at the community level. ?
The senior official said that last year, training was given twice by WHO's South-East Asia Regional Office. It decided how future respiratory epidemics could be avoided. Meanwhile, it was decided to launch the Preparedness and Resilience to Emerging Threats (PRET) initiative which will strengthen risk assessment and field epidemiology along with surveillance.
Even before the Corona era, infectious diseases were a problem in India. Thousands of people are afflicted with corona, adeno, influenza (flu), parainfluenza, parvovirus B19, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and rhinovirus (common cold) each year. According to experts, influenza is responsible for 15.4% of all cases of respiratory infections in India each year. HRV (6.2%), RSV (5%), HMPV (3.4%), PIV (3.3%), and ADV (3.1%) come next.
Infections with respiratory viruses affect 18% of people worldwide, and among children older than five, severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) are the leading cause of death. In 2018, the nation reported 41,996,260 cases and 3,740 deaths from respiratory infections, according to the 2019 report from the National Health Portal. The worst impact of Corona was on the United States, India, Brazil, France, Russia, Spain, Argentina, the United Kingdom, Colombia and Mexico.
