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Journal of Research in Ayurvedic Sciences 2023 April ; 7 (5 (Suppl.)) :45
Research initiatives and network linkages in COVID-19: Neo-dynamics of R&D in the Ayush sector

Abstract
The rapid spread and exponential increase in the mortality rate triggered the WHO to pronounce the novel coronavirus strain that caused the cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology in Hubei Province, China, in December 2019, as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). The government of India had initiated various proactive steps to bolster its emergency response strategies before the disease was named a pandemic by WHO on March 11, 2020. It adopted a multipronged, pre-emptive, proactive approach in early 2020 to reduce the spread, prevent morbidity and mortality associated with COVID-19, and minimize its profound impact on the general public. Further, the state governments were tasked to invoke the Epidemic Disease Act (EDA) of 1897 to tackle the COVID-19 emergency. Various steps were taken to strengthen the healthcare infrastructure and medical care provisions. Much of the efforts were focused on strengthening the core capacities such as laboratory facilities, hospital care, ensuring availability of isolation and quarantine facilities, training for disease surveillance, supply chain, and logistics management, development of personal protection equipment, ventilators, oxygen plants, emergency care and R&D on diagnostics, vaccines, and therapy. The general public was kept at the center of the governments' containment and mitigation strategies with efforts ranging from prevention, therapeutic care, and training on COVID-19-appropriate behavior. The unavailability of standard care and insufficient access to vaccines and emergency care and an overburdened and stretched public healthcare delivery system in the low and middle-income countries (LMICs), has propelled the government to revisit conventional and traditional medicine systems to explore possible prophylactic and therapeutic measures to suitably support the health care system to provide care for the ailing public amidst the COVID-19 scenario. . As stated by Hon'ble Prime Minister in his Mann ki Baat, the world of medical science has made much progress with the help of research and innovation, and the COVID has been a time when increasing research on Ayush systems has happened, and many research studies have been published. During the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, the PM had an interaction with Ayush practitioners vide video conference, wherein he expressed that Ayurveda has a long tradition of keeping the nation healthy and its importance has increased manifold in the ongoing efforts to tackle COVID-19. He urged that AYUSH scientists must come together with, ICMR, CSIR and other research organizations for evidence based research, which was taken up as a mission by the Ministry of Ayush during the COVID-19, through which many network linkages were established for planning, conduct and dissemination of the research outcomes generated among the masses. The Ministry of Ayush (MoA) also undertook several measures to contain the transmission of COVID-19, including the advisory to improve immunity and advised simple home remedies easily accessible to the general public. In congruence with the guidelines on clinical management of COVID-19, the Ministry of Ayush also issued regularly updated and widely circulated various guidelines to tackle the pandemic for Ayush practitioners.

DHARA ID: D063891


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