Building the Healthcare system, Responsibly

Building the Healthcare system, Responsibly 

(Left to right) Mr. Bhaskar Majumdar, Head - Corporate Affairs, Egis India, Mr. Sandeep Gulati, MD, Egis India, Dr. Virendra Yadav, CMO, Civil Surgeon's office, Gurgaon and Mr. Laurent Germain, CEO, Egis

The COVID 19 pandemic that engulfed our world like a massive cyclone, once again proved how small we are or our technological supremacy is vis-à-vis, the forces of nature. While the clarion call for combating climate change and promoting sustainable living were not enough, a microscopic virus brought us to our knees, demonstrating the price we had to pay for ignoring our planet for so long.

The global COVID 19 pandemic, which has spread like wildfire across the world and is currently proliferating in India - has raised many pertinent questions of healthcare infrastructure in India. Is India’s current healthcare infrastructure is adequately prepared to manage a pandemic of this scale? what all steps can be taken to build a robust healthcare infrastructure and spruce up the existing infrastructure? In India, affordable access to quality healthcare has always been bit of a challenge. India is one of the fastest growing economies today in the world with the second largest population.

India detected 28,903 cases of the novel coronavirus in March 21, of which 17,864 cases were from Maharashtra — the highest since September 30 last year. More than 1.14 crore people have been found infected in the country till now, while the number of active cases in the country has increased to more than 2.34 lakh.

Indian healthcare delivery system is categorised into two major components public and private. The Government, i.e. public healthcare system, comprises limited secondary and tertiary care institutions in key cities and focuses on providing basic healthcare facilities in the form of primary healthcare centres (PHCs) in rural areas. The private sector provides majority of secondary, tertiary, and quaternary care institutions with major concentration in metros and tier I and tier II cities.

Egis understands the fact that the world and even India, is currently faced with an unprecedented situation unleashed by the COVID 19 pandemic, with ramified impacts across businesses, society, health and the economy at large. It strongly believes that, as responsible corporate citizens, the industry needs to come together and offer collective and meaningful support to offset the impact of the pandemic. Extraordinary circumstances indeed call for extraordinary measures. Therefore, as a step towards achieving this overarching goal, Egis in India has geared its value-chain by supporting the Civil Surgeon's Office in setting up an IT Center in Gurugram for COVID Patients.

The CMO (Chief Medical Officer) office provides the key healthcare infrastructure in the state of Haryana. The sudden rise in cases in COVID and the subsequent requirement for infrastructure upgradation to meet the rise in demand was a challenge for everyone including the healthcare department. The Civil surgeon’s office needed support on setting up a COVID IT center and it complemented Egis’s CSR vision. Therefore, Egis chose to join hands with the CMO office and setup the IT center to help the CMO office to perform its duties in a more methodical manner.    

Egis identified what the infrastructure requirements for Civil Surgeons office are and worked together to build up the required IT backbone which will enable the healthcare department to keep all required data during COVID time.

Egis in India is fully committed towards supporting the Government’s efforts and playing its part in fighting this pandemic with utmost compassion and resilience. ‘Being Responsible’ is one of the core values of Egis. As such, as a responsible corporate, the CSR Committee of Egis in India among other opportunities, chose to support Gurgaon healthcare authorities to set up the much needed IT center, as a part of its CSR initiative. Egis chose traditional, digital and new age tools to promote the COVID IT center.

Virendra Yadav, CMO, Civil Hospital, Gurgaon, “I am very happy that a well-known global company like Egis has decided to partner with us in serving the community. I am very hopeful that we will have a long association and together we can achieve great things in community development.”