The lockdown period should have been utilized to augment our health facilities, acquire personal protective equipment for our health workers, creating adequate hospital space along with needed equipment like ventilators. This however did not happen. Private health facilities should have been commandeered to be utilised for public use based on requirement. Some countries like Spain have, in fact, gone to the extent of nationalising all private health facilities in their country.

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