“Public health is more than medicine and science. If we invest in health systems, we can bring this virus under control and go forward together”, UN World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told in a regular press briefing.
He attested that strong health systems can ensure quality testing, tracing and treatment measures.
To understand more about how hospitals can prepare and cope with COVID-19, the briefing guests spoke about how their countries were coping with the pandemic.
According to Professor Yae-Jean Kim, the Republic of Korea went from the second highest caseload of coronavirus patients globally to one of the lowest by drawing on lessons it learned from the 2015 MERS COVID outbreak.
In addition to rapid PCR swab testing and rapid isolation, the Korean physicians developed “drive-through testing facilities”; had a community treatment centre for milder cases; prepared public hospitals for high-risk communicable diseases and had private hospitals pick up overload cases.
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