Column by Mahfuz Anam: Pandemic's biggest lesson -- restructure health sector to handle current, future pandemics
Simplistically put, it is a "procedure vs patient" issue—meaning a "bureaucracy vs ultimate beneficiary" tussle. We, of course, need procedures to work within, otherwise systems would collapse. But of the two, there should not be any doubt as to which should get priority, especially during a pandemic. "Patients" should have been at the centre of the focus but the focus went to
Source: thedailystar.net
