[City Epidemiologist and Medical Officer IV of City Government of Baguio, The Philippines]
BACKGROUND
The Covid19 Pandemic has surfaced a lot of weaknesses and inadequacies across all nations. No country was spared. The fact that the elderlies are the most vulnerable population being affected by Covid 19, it came all as unprecedented to people in governance (when we are used to dealing with infectious disease and vaccine preventable diseases among children). It did not spare all levels of governance.
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CONCLUSION
The Covid 19 pandemic magnified every country’s shortfall to protect or shield the elderlies. The elderlies are the most disadvantageous in terms of the risk of getting infected and getting hospitalized. There is a need to mitigate its impact thru systems approach and whole of government approach. These strategies are influenced by thecity’s mission of mitigating the effects of the pandemic on the health of its citizens, to enable everyone to function normally as a community, to minimize the economic consequences of the pandemic, and to plot our recovery by way of a greener and healthier urban agenda.
A feedback mechanism is paramount to accountability. Decision-makers, are likewise inthe know of how the citizens are coping, so that it can respond to their concerns and requests in real-time, and adjust its decisions whenever it is deemed necessary.
Protecting and Sheidling the Elderlies
Donnabel Panes
[City Epidemiologist and Medical Officer IV of City Government of Baguio, The Philippines]
BACKGROUND
The Covid19 Pandemic has surfaced a lot of weaknesses and inadequacies across all nations. No country was spared. The fact that the elderlies are the most vulnerable population being affected by Covid 19, it came all as unprecedented to people in governance (when we are used to dealing with infectious disease and vaccine preventable diseases among children). It did not spare all levels of governance.
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CONCLUSION
The Covid 19 pandemic magnified every country’s shortfall to protect or shield the elderlies. The elderlies are the most disadvantageous in terms of the risk of getting infected and getting hospitalized. There is a need to mitigate its impact thru systems approach and whole of government approach. These strategies are influenced by thecity’s mission of mitigating the effects of the pandemic on the health of its citizens, to enable everyone to function normally as a community, to minimize the economic consequences of the pandemic, and to plot our recovery by way of a greener and healthier urban agenda.
A feedback mechanism is paramount to accountability. Decision-makers, are likewise inthe know of how the citizens are coping, so that it can respond to their concerns and requests in real-time, and adjust its decisions whenever it is deemed necessary.