Through IPE Global’s PAHAL project, USAID India to support the National Health Authority in establishing Blending Financial Facility in order to mobilise resources from private sector to assist over 20,000 health facilities enrolled under Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana.
Himanshu Sikka, chief strategy and diversification officer, health, nutrition and wash, IPE Global said that So far there does not seem to be a spike in pneumonia or respiratory illness-related cases/deaths in rural areas. However, with the mass exodus of migrant labourers, the likelihood of increased number of cases emerging in rural India has also […]
Ashwajit Singh, Managing Director, IPE Global stated that not all the migrants will be infected as by and large they were not in direct contact with infected persons most of whom had directly or indirectly contracted the disease through overseas travel or travellers.
Ashwajit Singh, MD, IPE Global acknowledges that even, consultancy firms have been affected by Covid-19 related slowdown. He says, “Nearly all our client companies have halted the key strategic and ongoing projects, which, in turn, has affected our payment schedules.” However, he assures that in the current situation no jobs will be lost, or salaries […]
According to Ashwajit Singh, MD IPE Global, the initial bailout packages announced by the Government are mainly aimed at covering the common man and specially those below Below Poverty Line (BPL). Direct transfers and food security are good measures in the short run aimed at immediate survival, but medium to long term measures are required […]
Himanshu Sikka, chief strategy and diversification officer, Health, Nutrition and WASH, IPE Global said Government and Public Health Managers are very much aware of this possibility and the government discharge policy for covid-19 cases requires discharge after only two samples test negative within 24 hours and there’s evidence of chest radiographic clearance and viral clearance […]
Himanshu Sikka, Lead- Health, Nutrition & WASH, IPE Global said that Creating herd immunity will need at least 50-60% of world population getting infected, so that will also take time. Vaccine is also at best 18-24 month away. Even when vaccine is available reach and administration will have challenges.
Himanshu Sikka, lead-health, nutrition and WASH at IPE Global mentioned that Past surveillance-focused experience with elimination of small pox and polio would come handy. IPE Global has worked closely with Unicef and WHO in India on polio elimination and that level of door-to-door surveillance, combined with isolation of each identified case, seems to be the […]
Ashwajit Singh, Managing Director, IPE Global said While Countries around the world are implementing measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus, from national quarantines to school closures to sealing off borders, the testing time for India has come. “India is capable of withstanding a short lockdown but we need to be thinking and acting beyond […]
