Assessing the impact of COVID-19 management on the workload of human resources working in India’s National Tuberculosis Elimination Program
- Authors
- Christina Mergenthaler, Aarushi Bhatnagar, Di Dong, Vimal Kumar, Chantale Lakis, Ronald Mutasa, Shankar Dapkekar, Agrima Sahore, Garima Gupta, Sapna Surendran, Gyorgy Fritsche, Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva, Marjolein Dieleman
- Publication year
- 2024
In 1993, WHO declared tuberculosis (TB) as a global health emergency considering 10 million people are battling TB, of which 30% are undiagnosed annually. In 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic took an unprecedented toll on health systems in every country. Public health staff already engaged in TB control and numerous other departments were additionally tasked with managing COVID-19, stretching human resource (HR) capacity beyond its limits.
As part of an assessment of HR involved in TB control in India, The World Bank Group and partners conducted an analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on TB human resources for health (HRH) workloads, with the objective of describing the extent to which TB-related activities could be fulfilled and hypothesizing on future HR requirements to meet those needs.
