Question

On 13th April 2020, an article was published on the internet under the title "After the pandemic: How will Covid-19 transform global health and development?"

Please, read the article and answer the following question:

Do you think there can be any positive consequences to public health after the current pandemic crisis? Please, justify your answer and provide examples, if possible.  

Answer 1

This global pandemic has changed a lot of things which nations believed:-

The pandemic has made many countries which were totally dependent on the other countries for the essential products like PPE kits which the maximum countries import from china but as of now maximum countries are trying to produce the essential products in there country only this has lead to many positive happenings as this has lead to countries being independent for there needs and this allows new opportunities for the medical infrastructure to improve because from the past many years the countries were more focused towards the defense infrastructure but none of them tried to build the medical infrastructure which has now lead the countries to think how to quickly ramp up their infrastructure as well as there capabilities of how to deal with a situation like this. After this pandemic is over each and every country will try to improve the medical facilities in the country and will also try to increase the research on these type of pandemic like situations and how to collaborate with the global powers to deal with such warlike situations.

The focus on global collaborations in order to get financial and research-based collaboration will be motivated.
The role of Health organizations will also be monitored as to how to deal with such situations and how a simple travel ban can stop such a pandemic to reach globally.

In other words, countries will now focus more on medicines rather than missiles for such time they develop the medical infrastructure to the extent that fulfills the countries demand.

Let's Take an example of India:-
India before pandemic was totally dependent on imports of N95 Masks, PPE kits also India has a very little capacity of producing ventilators around 6000-10000 a year.
But after this pandemic and watching the dependency India has motivated a large number of manufactures in the country only and by may only India will be producing 100000/Day PPE kits and same is the ration with N95 Masks and when we talk about the medical infrastructure India will be able to produce 30000 ventilators in may as well as when we talk about the medicines India is trying to build the self-reliant pharma industry which is not even dependent for raw materials on any other country. So in this way we have the USA as the same example it also trying the same. so this pandemic has helped countries think upon the health priorities.