India needs investments in health
India needs investments in health
Dr. Arun Mitra
Warning by the WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyeses for the need to make greater investment in Public Health system so that ‘world is better prepared to meet the future pandemics’ must be taken seriously. He has further stressed that ‘public health system with all – of – government and all – of – society one health approach is essential to make the world safer for our children to inherit’. For a sustainable world we need better public health.
Soviet Union was the first country in the world to give constitutional right to the people for free healthcare. This was affirmed in the Soviet Constitution of 1936 as one of the basic rights of the Soviet people, along with rights to education and right to work.