All the countries across the globe have reconstructed the healthcare system responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many high quality systems were failed to contain the infection and to deliver adequate treatment.
Which might be a good model for healthcare now and future? Should we focus on primary healthcare or secondary and tertiary one? How to harmonize them to prevent and contain future disasters?
Prof. Tuyen Van Duong , in my opinion, improvement & increase in terms of infrastructure, essential medial equipment, trained healthcare personnel and expert medical team are essential at each of the level i.e., primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare. In addition to implement the aforementioned criteria, subsequent funding is also going to be equally important. Furthermore, more funding is required for the research work (i.e., development of drugs/study the nature of any virulent strain etc.) when we want to fight against the situation. I would like to add another option of tele-phonic or video consultation which requires more attention in present situation. Looking forward to hear from others in this regard for this relevant discussion.
Thanks.
All three levels; primary secondary and tertiary have to be modified to cater to the pandemic burden. One level alone will not be able to do justice and cope with the demand of this Pandemic.
A health disaster of this kind of pandemic Primary Health care system may not directly control the disaster without the required medical infrastructure. But it is inevitable to maintain all three levels based on the population size. Alongside it is also important a parallel Medical Research and Development in the Pharma sector. So budgets need to be categorized and disbursed accordingly as a proportion to GDP. In countries where GDP growth is slow and low requirements have to be met by external assistance to develop facilities. So the role of local government to global involvement has become the need of such situations.
Dear Sudha Mavuri , Idrees Anwar and Samit Karmakar
Thanks for giving the good points to discuss this topic.
You may be interested in this article.
Article WHO Calls for Stronger Primary Care in the Postpandemic World
All the three levels are very important to control post pandemic situation. All health care providers are playing the major role.