COVID-19: The Kerala Model of Flattening The Curve | Rajeev Sadanandan

Описание: Kerala is increasingly becoming the aberration to the norm of India's battle against the COVID-19 crisis, with 218 recovered cases and 3 deaths out of 388 confirmed cases as of 16th April 2020. As the rest of India struggles to contain the outbreak with maxed out healthcare systems and severe lack of testing kits and medical supplies, is there a lesson to be learned from the Kerala model? What difficulties did Kerala face initially with respect to high tourist numbers, and did it resolve them? What is the Kerala model of dealing with an epidemic? How can people overcome the stigma around COVID-19 and the indiscretion they are practicing with regard to their travel histories? How are private and public hospitals working together to mitigate the crisis?

Kriti Kapur, Junior Fellow at ORF’s Health Initiative in the Sustainable Development programme, in conversation with Rajeev Sadanandan, discusses how Kerala's long-term investment into its healthcare system, higher literacy rates, and training and awareness from previous epidemics are helping it flatten the curve of the crisis, and what can be the takeaway for the rest of the nation.

Mr. Rajeev Sadanandan is the Chief Executive Officer of Health Systems Transformation Platform (HSTP). He is a former Indian bureaucrat from the Kerala cadre of the Indian Administrative Service and a healthcare policymaker. He has been working and researching in the area of health systems, policy and financing for over two decades. He has been involved with the health system of the state of Kerala and has been active in health sector reforms in the state, spearheading the remarkable state-wide effort to arrest the Nipah virus in 2018.

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