The World Health Organization said that the Corona virus continues to disrupt basic health services in about 90% of countries, and that the second round of its survey revealed that a year after the virus spread globally, about 90% of countries are still reporting one or more disruptions. In basic health services, which shows that there has been no significant change at the global level since the first survey conducted by the organization in this regard in summer 2020
A report issued by the organization today, Friday, said that despite this, the size and extent of unrest within countries in general decreased, and pointed out that countries reported in 2020 that about half of basic health services had been disrupted, and in the first three months of 2021 they reported progress with disruption. Just over a third of the services.
He explained that more than half of the countries consulted say that they have appointed additional staff to strengthen the health workforce and redirect patients to other care facilities, in addition to switching to alternative methods of providing care such as providing more home services and prescriptions for several months of treatments and increasing the use of medicine over After, he pointed out that despite the countries using new employees, up to 66% of countries continue to report the causes of the health workforce as the most common cause of service interruption, and that supply chains are also still disrupted in nearly a third of countries, which affects Availability of essential medicines, diagnostics and personal protective equipment needed to provide safe and effective care.
The report recommends that different countries take important decisions when responding to the (Coronavirus) if they find that it may negatively affect access to care in other health issues. Such as the redeployment of personnel to provide relief as part of the virus response, as well as the temporary closure of health facilities and services.
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