A platform called RadVid-19 that uses AI is helping Brazilian doctors detect and diagnose new Covid-19 cases. — AFP
MY 85-year-old uncle was hospitalised due to ageing issues at a private hospital in Kolkata, India. In the intensive care unit, he contracted Covid-19 from another patient whose infection the hospital was not even aware of. It took the hospital days to figure out that many of its ICU patients, doctors and other professionals were already infected.
The pandemic shows us the inequality of healthcare access. This collective global experience will invariably lead to demands of massive upscaling of healthcare. Economic and political inaction under such demand is not an option.
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