Experts tell the BBC that delays in decision-making worsened the crisis of India's second wave.
Very ill patients have been stuck outside hospitals as they wait for beds to become available
"We also procured sufficient stock of remdesivir and tocilizumab and other drugs well in advance. We also have a surge plan in place to tackle any exponential rise in the numbers in the coming weeks," he says."Learning means someone else has done it and you can do it now, but that means it will take time," the former health secretary for Maharashtra said.
"Any public health specialist will tell you there is no practical way to strengthen an already broken public healthcare system in a matter of months," one woman, whose family runs a large private hospital in Delhi, told the BBC.
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