In collaboration with the health ministry, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and 15 institutions of national importance, the ICMR will pool a national clinical registry covering all COVID-19 patients, who have been hospitalised.
The institutions will mentor other clinical organisations involved in the response to the pandemic, to widen the footprint of the database.
About Infodemic:
Overabundance of the information.
Difficult to distinguish between trustworthy news and fake news.
Need of the unified database:
A unified database is essential for tracking patients over the long term, for their own safety, to propagate successful interventions globally.
To examine how the virus may interact with other factors, like genetic makeup, comorbidities, location, climate and diet.
In the short term, a database would help to answer critical questions:
What is the phone number of the nearest plasma donor?
Which patients can be helped immediately by a newly discovered intervention?
Need of standard Information:
Issue of standardized information availability to the health professionals.
The long-term effects of the novel coronavirus remain in the realm of conjecture.