Published on: January 27, 2022

In her op-ed in the Hindustan Times, Involvement of people living with non-communicable diseases, Ms Radhika Shrivastav, who leads the Healthy India Alliance (the Indian arm of the NCD [Non-Communicable Diseases] Alliance), and others write, “Community participation and empowerment is an important best buy for achieving equitable, people-led health care and palliative care. The Alma-Ata Declaration on primary care emphasised that communities have a right and responsibility to be involved in their health.”

Indeed. Involvement of people living with NCDs (PLWNCDs) would be fundamental to matching actions of health systems to people’s needs on the ground. The Astana Declaration of 2018 asked member countries of the UN to give control over healthcare to the communities. But we are a long way away from that. Thank you Ms Radhika Srivastava and team for this op-ed. We shall look forward to working with you on a national project to achieve this.

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