A Grey-TOPSIS Approach to Minimize COVID-19 Transmission for the Betterment of Public-Health in the Indian Context

1. Introduction

There has been an impressive pace in the progress of the Indian health-care industry (Sisodia and Agrawal, 2019). Moreover, the healthcare-system is a real example for any distributed collaborative-system for the improvement in the healthcare of patients (Barhoun et al., 2019). Infectious diseases have become as one of the major public-health problem in India. Occasionally, it is seen of attaining epidemic-proportion by some of the infectious-diseases, even-though many of these diseases are found to be wide-spread like flu and malaria. A sudden with an increasing number of disease-cases is reported in case of an epidemic in excess of normal expectation in a community, which are usually public-health-emergencies that disrupt the routine health services. These include a variety of viral infectious-disease like dengue, polio, measles, mengitis, and typhoid-fevers with some bacteria-based infectious-disease like cholera, diarrheoa, etc. Some of the significant factors that cause in epidemic have been reported as lack of clean as well as hygienic drinking-waters, contaminations of sources of drinking-water, lacking of awareness related to insanitation, unhygienic-food, over-crowds, and biological-conditions in addition to ecological-factors.

For the control measures of epidemic in addition to treatment of patients, a higher cost is incurred that is associated with the negative impacts on both domestic as well as international levels. The epidemics occurrences are due to several factors allied to microorganisms & environment. Furthermore, as a consequence of prevailing of these factors, a number of developing countries like India have been affected by epidemics frequently followed by a higher mortality rate, and thus adversely impacting on the normal health of public with their economy-levels. Therefore, the present study aimed at exploring the preventive measures through general guidelines for the betterment and safety of public-health from the transmission of COVID-19 viruses in India, which has been recently increasing throughout the world.