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Written by Rebecca Shibu Compiled by Vrinda Panpalia Edited by Yamini Peter COVID-19 has unmasked critical health system gaps and deficiencies. Health workforce shortages, broken supply chains, fragmented services and silo information systems are a few of the problems that hindered the response in the early days.  The pandemic has exposed us to a catastrophe that requires expansion of the International and National Mental Health Agenda emphasising on closing the care gap for people with mental illnesses to improving mental health for the whole population, including suicide prevention in India.  Drawing from the learnings of the first wave of the pandemic, the emerging mental health crisis needs to be approached in a way that ensures building infrastructures that are able to stay resolute through a crisis in the future. Mental Health’s Role in achieving the SDGs Sustainability in mental health is the ability to provide high-value care now and in the future in the face of envir...

Written by Rebecca Shibu Compiled by Vrinda Panpalia Edited by Yamini Peter The world stands at the juncture of building an ecosystem that needs to support the existing crisis of COVID-19, further evolve and make room for growth. After having gone through a little more than a revolution with the pandemic around us, the value associated with ‘health’ has increased substantially. Health is prevalent, its prevalence has gone beyond just a lay person’s journey from the nearest clinic to the chemist’s. It entails the entire culture of care that resounds in the actions and responses to a pandemic like that exists today. We depend on being healthy — and getting access to quality healthcare when we're sick — as a base for living our lives, whether it's working, socialising, or simply contributing to society. Everything we do is focused on good health and well-being. However, the United Nation notes that until 2019, at least half of the world’s population did not have access to basic...

  In the months and years to come, we will be witness to a world that has been through a critical phase due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. It will be a world that continues to work towards rebuilding and trying to achieve various economic, social, cultural, ecological and general development goals. One could regard this as a process of learning and unlearning about existing infrastructures and their potential in the future. While measuring the potential of things in the future, there are several factors taken into consideration, factors that stand out in these largely borrowed from the idea of sustainability.  Hence, the concept of sustainability has more value today than ever before. Given this background, truCSR is launching its “Campaign for Sustainability” for the span of two months where we breakdown complex ideas of sustainable development across thematic areas.  In the process of analyzing the future and what the future should hold, sustainability becomes the bedrock of...