AS the number of COVID-19 cases rise again, health experts and medical academicians have tagged this as phase 3 of the pandemic (community spread). The need of the hour according to them, is to have a two-fold solution: a) clinical and pathological autopsies should be a must to ascertain the exact reason for death and also to have collective data for medical students and research and b) introduction of epidemic management in medical text books, from undergraduate levels, which can be very useful for better training and handling of pandemics in future.

The National Working Committee of the Indian Medical Association formed to make recommendations for the formation of the Indian Medical Services (IMS), a separate cadre on the lines of the IAS, IPS, IFS, and IRS, has already submitted its 40-pages detailed report to the Central Health Ministry for better COVID management.