Pak301 GDB
Question:
What are the remedial
measures Pakistan government have taken so far to manage the crises and
challenges emerging out of current epidemic COVID-19?
Solution:
Globally, corona virus (COVID19)
pandemic has become the most significant crisis to challenge the health,
economy and the wellbeing of the humans affecting nearly all the countries. The
world governments are taking radical mitigation measures to counter the health
impact of the virus, which on the other hand has severe economic and financial
consequences on the lives of the people around the world. Thus, the COVID-19
has become more than a health crisis for all countries with critical social,
economic and political consequences.
Without exception, like all the countries of the world,
Pakistan is also hit by the pandemic
with an increasing number of confirmed
cases
The government of Pakistan has set aside
a PKR 1.13 trillion ($6.76
billion) budget to effectively
deal with corona crisis. A large part of this funding is being spent in health to fight the COVID-19 crisis.
The national and provincial
governments have additionally implemented Corona virus related laws to
effectively deal with the situation. The country is in sometimes stricken
lockdown and sometimes in the condition of smart lockdown. The government has
started to ease down the lockdown as the spread of the virus seems to be under
manageable proportions.
Moreover, the civil society,
community and patient organizations have also been very active and helping the
government in providing the much-needed help in dealing with this crisis. There
are a number of ways the patient advocates and NGOs are providing relief to the
community, which include initiatives such as telephone help lines, social media
campaigns, Whatsapp Support Groups, provision of free medicine to needy
patients, distribution of food Ration packs, corona related informational
material development and dissemination and telemedicine programs.
Pakistan so far has been able to implement effective medical, social
and economical measures due to which the situation on
ground seems to be under control. The Pakistani Prime Minister, Imran Khan in his recent statement
has said that the government has taken unprecedented
Steps to counter the effects of
COVID-19 crisis and so far the country has dealt with the pandemic quite
effectively and Pakistan’s situation was not as bad as the United States or
Europe.
The government has given awareness
on high level through electric and social media to create social distance and
has instructed that how to wash hands and face several times a day to prevent
the disease.
The challenges facing Pakistan in
the current crisis are stark, and it remains to be seen whether the huge
interventions that the government has undertaken will be enough to take the
country out of this pandemic successfully.
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