Primary health to insurance: Five non-Covid-19 areas to focus on in 2021

Covid-19 demanded the single-minded focus of India's entire healthcare infrastructure all through 2020. In fact, the pandemic hogged so much attention across all aspects of our lives that most other issues of public health were put on the back-burner.

Issues such as tackling tuberculosis and health insurance, which could have been addressed in 2020, were sidelined. As India's entire healthcare system was forced to forego all issues other than Covid-19, the nation would have to catch up on matters overlooked in the last year while facing new challenges such as mass vaccination and ramping up health infrastructure.

"The Covid-19 pandemic is a