When it comes to India’s public health systems, the will of the people and the will of Parliament is not in sync. The electorate take into account a vast number of factors which have nothing to do with shaping health systems while electing representatives. That’s why India’s government hospitals are struggling, remain cockroach infested zones and survive with crumbling infrastructure. That’s why social protection is absent from the dictionary of policy makers for India’s health safeguards.

— Dr. Edmond Fernandes

Built-in greed, animosity, anger, jealousy, hatred is of no fruitful value in our transitory lifetime. Those thriving on it will eventually be consumed by it. The practice of fraternal love and peace is the only gateway to redemption.

— Dr. Edmond Fernandes

Let us aspire to inspire men and women of goodwill, before we expire, as death is a common destination of a human journey. What we do in between & meanwhile is all that truly matters in the end.

— Dr. Edmond Fernandes

It is hard to deny that all sound and fury magnified by news reporters coarsens the public health management in India. Among populations, it makes tempers flare, breeds distrust and promotes civil disobedience. Pandemic management must be medically driven, not politically.

— Dr. Edmond Fernandes

Global health practitioners need to implement policies and provide solutions such that the course of after events get continually affected by what they do. Global health needs sustained tact built through social friendship.

— Dr. Edmond Fernandes

When architects of global health deliver results of public welfare & sustainability, they actually sign promissory notes to every citizen of the world who is to fall heir. That is the promise of life itself, I believe.

— Dr. Edmond Fernandes

The characteristic make of India is built on values of pluralism, tolerance, respect for others, being pro-people, being inclusive, being Indian at heart, global in spirit.

— Dr. Edmond Fernandes

On the occasion of India's Independence Day, I take this opportunity to convey to each and every Indian, that our tricolor flies high because of you. Because you believed in the idea of a unified yet diverse nation, because you relied on the values of honesty, fraternity, accountability and rights for all, because you called right a right, wrong a wrong and held your forte when everyone else around was losing it. The journey of our nation moves forward and stands strong today, because you live. Celebrate the spirit of freedom always. Happy Independence Day.

— Dr. Edmond Fernandes

Donors today need to understand a new way of development in a climate of cascading risks. Building a human community through global health and development friendship will mean looking beyond concept notes, flowcharts and raw data. It will also rather require a bold vision to look at voices of reason, minds of vision and pure evidence from the ground. That's what will work beyond optics and marketing, something which will be soulful and touching.

— Dr. Edmond Fernandes

Healthcare today is splintered into millions of fragments, each with its own version of evidence and each claiming the loyalty of a splintered fraternity of healthcare providers.

— Dr. Edmond Fernandes