Abstract : Health Care is not an exclusive province only of doctors, hospitals and social services but a legal mandate to State to ensure right to life with dignity to its citizens in compliance of national and international covenants. Through Hippocratic Oath, health care depicts an unending sea of medical service for humanity beyond parochial cleavages of race, religion, ethnicity, property and penury, and “Health for All” has become a clarion call under the aegis of Millennium Development Goal. Public Health Care throughout the globe is poised to vindicate healthy societies and citizenry by thwarting the health inequalities hosting on social stratification and unequal social, economic and political pitches. Public Health Care system is an instrument of social justice to be operated by both the ruler and ruled. India like many other developed countries built up four-corned network of medical services covering urban and rural areas. Public health systems, everywhere, are grappled with communicable and non-communicable, emerging and re-emerging diseases like drug resistant T.B., malaria, SARS, avian flu, HIN and Corona pandemic. Covid-19 the newly detected invisible virus playing truant with medical profession devouring millions of people throughout the globe has become most dreaded enemy of public health and human existence. Though our medical researches and solutions portray silver lines of hope for cure, the non-recurrence of corona death-dance is not fully assured, and threat of Covid-19 in various forms looms large over the public health. Researches throughout the world roar against the Corona pandemic, and health is sought to be not a mere escape from death but an escape from disease. The statistics of Covid-19 pandemic are frightening that need to be arrested and annihilated through a collective global endeavor to save humans rich or poor or great or small. This article intends to portray a comparative study of the deadly prevalence of Corona virus and its impact on public health system and human existence, and the efforts of W.H.O. to contain the epidemic..
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