Primary healthcare in the time of COVID-19: breaking the silos of healthcare provision

In 1948, the WHO was created under the aegis of the United Nations (UN) as the agency to address global health concerns. Health was defined as a ‘state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’.1 In 1978 with the Alma Ata Declaration, the member states of the UN began a process to translate this definition into reality by mandating primary healthcare (PHC) as the health policy for the...