Covid-19 and thereafter - Newspaper
The writer is a former SAPM Health. IT may sound premature to talk about ‘thereafter’ when the third wave of Covid-19 is raging. But it isn’t really too early. How countries respond to health emergencies is a direct function of how prepared they were at the time the emergency struck. Indeed, ‘health emergency’ can be a pure health issue, like the pandemic, or it can be corollary to any other local or national catastrophe such as earthquakes, floods and famine. As the Covid-19 experience has shown, we were least prepared to face a health emergency. Despite Pakistan being prone to dis...