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We’ve a broken healthcare

supply chain;

time to build it now VOLUME 12 - ISSUE 3 | MAY-JUNE 2021

GROUP EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ven though successful Covid vaccines were officially rolled out at different parts of the R. K. Patra
world in December last year giving hope to the world, the dangers of the pandemic editor@statmediagroup.com
Econtinue to loom large across the world. EDITOR
Reji John
India witnessed an unexpected and deadly surge in Covid infection rates and deaths since reji@statmediagroup.com
March this year and the conditions have not really improved in the last two months. Several
thousands of people lost their lives to the virus and several others lost their lives because they ASSOCIATE EDITOR
just did not have access to essential medicines, oxygen and hospital care. Surya Kannoth
surya@statmediagroup.com
While India continues to be the world’s largest pharma manufacturer and also a leading
vaccine producer; the deadly second wave and what followed after that exposed two key PRINCIPAL CORRESPONDENT
Shalini Nair
weaknesses of India’s healthcare sector – an inadequate healthcare infrastructure and an shalini@statmediagroup.com
extremely broken healthcare supply chain.
CORRESPONDENT
Several people lost their lives in India in the second wave because there was no medical Libin Chacko Kurian
oxygen available when and where they wanted. No doubt, the virus was more potent this time. libin@statmediagroup.com
With an alarming rate of covid cases there was demand for oxygen concentrators. As the MARKETING
Dinesh Balan
Indian healthcare crumbled, the world began to send in plane loads of critical healthcare dinesh@statmediagroup.com
supplies. But it is reliably learnt that a lot of supplies that came into the country did not reach
Renju Raju
the people in need at the right time and at the right place. Regulatory bottlenecks either renju@statmediagroup.com
delayed the arrival of aids to the country and those that reached country did not move out
quickly to reach places they require most. ART DIRECTOR
Suhas Patki
Even in the case of medical oxygen, it was argued that India had the infrastructure to
produce enough oxygen to meet the growing demand, but it was the fragmented, broken and SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Prasad Mohite
siloed supply chain that caused more hard.
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In this issue, we feature a cover story on how the world’s largest pharma manufacturing
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healthcare logistics with modern digital technology tools.
In this issue we bring a series of interviews that include Vickram Srivastava, head of
planning, global supply chain, Sun Pharmaceuticals; Amitava Saha, CEO and founder of
Xpressbees; and Abhishek Chaudhary, vice president - corporate affairs, HR & company
secretary – NICDC and promoter director at NLDS.
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