New Delhi: A pandemic is not the right time to overhaul the country’s massive welfare system and setting long term priorities based on experience of a few months may not be wise, according to a government official.Expenditure secretary T V Somanathan said at a webinar on Wednesday that it would be a mistake to reorient the entire welfare system, especially the healthcare system, based on the experience of four months of the coronavirus pandemic. “Deciding the healthcare priorities based on these four months will be wrong.
Are hospital beds and intensive care units the long term priorities? We have not decided these are the long term priorities.