JUDGMENT :

The COVID-19 pandemic has poignantly demonstrated that health is not the business of a few – all must come together.

2. With the crisis expected to deepen before it improves, there are major foundational dimensions to health system and people's access to it.

3. The pandemic brings into focus two truths: First, health for all without unbearable financial burden is imperative; and Second, strong health systems to respond to evolving and continuing health crisis is unexpendable.

4. The pandemic is a wake up call for the Government, that it carries primary responsibility of its citizens' health as part of social contract, particularly that of the most vulnerable and marginalized sections.

5. The Government must, meaningfully and transparently, engage the whole of the society in their responses; especially because myriad issues are thrown up by the COVID scenario.

6. The need for a systematic approach to the complex challenges and for better understanding the relationship between population health and its economic consequences have been recognised as the basis towards sustain