Too much focus on pandemic containment has sidelined other dimensions of health like reproductive/sexual health, adolescent health, mental health, geriatric health etc. Are we heading on right path? What key strategies need to employed to address such important but neglected health issues during these testing times?
I think that one of the dramatic effects of this pandemic is precisely to have neglected the other aspects of public health. In several countries, the regular health controls of sick people (diabetes, heart, cancer...) had been interrupted for long months, as well as chemotherapies for cancer patients without even giving a delay. People were afraid of going to hospitals or doctors because of the contagion from these potentially crowded places. Another drawback from the international lockdown decided to fight the pandemic is that the importation of the medicine had been also interrupted, entailing a shortage. The intensity of the focus on covid-19 was not rational.
@Rim Lahmandi-Ayed...As evident from the global situation every nation has failed to adress health holistically during the pandemic, even the most advanced one. But this can be taken as a learning opportunity in order to curb such drastic situations in future scenarios. Can you suggest some countermeasures which should have been/can be taken to address such circumstances in future??
The situation was so that most of us were helpless during the lockdown situation. Fortunately, many institutions in India have initiated tele-medicine which was not the routine practice. Though it was not the substitute, we could provide some care to patients with chronic illness. I feel, this is the lesson for us to plan the future
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