Hindustan Times. Gates said that with the breadth of talent, the scale, if you’re going to track vaccination for these many people, a digital system was the only way to do that. “I was in the health ministry and they were showing how they did that with a digital system.
That is something we want to have people from other countries to come and see," he noted. “I’m very pleased to see that India has a One Health initiative that says we’ve got to track what’s going on in the animal world.
I’ve had good discussions on what’s called environmental surveillance, where you’re going to the sewage stream. And you can see not just Covid, but also flu variants there," he said.
Using digitisation, the government is working to raise the quality of the health system under the ABDM (Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission) umbrella.