World Medical Resources Focused on Corona...Keep our eye on AIDS, tuberculosis, etc.

The Associated Press reported on the 15th (local time) that as the world is making all-out efforts to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus infection (CORONA 19), there are concerns that the fight against other diseases could retreat.

Experts are reportedly concerned that the long-running fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and cholera, which causes millions of deaths each year, could worsen.

Although the World Health Organization (WHO) has set a target deadline to fight malaria and other diseases, critics point out that the global pandemic of Corona 19 could put decades of such efforts at risk.

Lavina Dersoza, 43, who lives in Mumbai, India, has been banned from receiving government-backed anti-Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) drugs since her government imposed a blockade last month due to Corona 19 which mean “out of stock”. Concerned about the collapse of his immune system, Dersoza said, "No matter what disease you have, I'll get sick faster than others."

Dr. John Nkengasong of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) feared a sharp drop in the number of people responding to the disease as other disease-related resources shifted to the Corona 19 response.

The hospital said that this is the biggest concern when medical resources are concentrated on Corona 19 response, causing supply shortages and even health and medical services are suspended.

In some countries, health care systems have already been overloaded.

Doctors at Alibat National Hospital in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, shared detailed documents containing the details of the nationwide measures, including the acceptance of a small number of patients in the emergency room, indefinite postponement for patients requiring selective surgery, exclusion of primary care in nonessential situations, and conversion of skilled medical staff to coronal 19 patients.

Even in countries with highly advanced health and medical systems, such as Korea, for example, patients who want to be treated for diseases such as tuberculosis had to be turned away," Son Ho-joon of Bloomberg Public Health College, Johns Hopkins, told the AP.

It is highly likely that the number of unconfirmed tuberculosis patients will increase as the Corona 19 response overloads the health system and the government order them to evacuate their homes, Sohn said.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ebola recently broke out again and more than 6,000 people died from measles earlier, according to the local head of the international relief organization World Vision.

Corona19's global pandemic does not limit the treatment of patients with other diseases.

In India, not only patients but also doctors will be unable to move to medical institutions during the blockade period, and test samples will not be sent to related agencies.

Pandemics have also disrupted the supply of medical supplies such as major drugs and protective equipment, explained Mark Pio, director of operations at the Borderless Medical Society.

The Global Alliance for Vaccine Immunity said it reported a shortage of vaccines in 21 countries due to border closures and air suspension.

The measles and rubella initiative (M&RI), a U.N. organization supported by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UNICEF (UNISEF), expressed concern that the measles vaccination campaign has already been postponed in 24 countries and that more than 117 million children in 37 countries could miss the chance to get vaccinated.

Rashid Ansumana, a community health expert in Sierra Leone, said the impact of Corona 19 "will certainly be more."

Dr. Nkengasong of the African CDC warned that efforts to respond to other diseases may not make headway as the spread of Corona 19 faces challenges for countries to choose the health and medical sectors.

He stressed that "the time to emphasize these programs is not the time when Corona 19 ends, but right now."