Department of Surgery, Ayub Teaching Hospital, Abbottabad, Pakistan; State Key Lab of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Nanjing University, Nanjing PR, China.
Department of Surgery, Ayub Teaching Hospital, Abbottabad, Pakistan; State Key Lab of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Nanjing University, Nanjing PR, China.
Value Health Reg Issues. 2021 May;24:90-95. doi: 10.1016/j.vhri.2020.10.005. Epub 2021 Jan 30.
In this article, we assess the resources, strategies, laboratory testing, awareness campaigns, and different treatment plans initiated by the government of Pakistan.
A comprehensive literature search was performed using Medline/PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, and Google Scholar and official websites of Government of Pakistan and international organizations to identify empirical literature published in English from 2019 to June 2020.
It was not until the end of December 2019 that the first case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was discovered in Hubei province, China, with Wuhan the epicenter of it, sending the nation into an 11-week lockdown. It was the first of its kind and never seen before; hence, based on its novelty, the Chinese authorities named it novel coronavirus (2019-nCOV). Until January 23, 2020, there were only 17 cases in Wuhan, which surged to around 60,000 on February 16, 2020, with 2000 deaths. The World Health Organization declared it a global pandemic on January 30, 2020. Pakistan reported its first case of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in February in Karachi. At the time, we did not realize the threat we were facing, and with even fewer resources at our disposal, it would turn out to be a major disaster in the coming days in Pakistan.
The COVID-19 crisis will likely have both short-term and long-term consequences for the general population, healthcare workers, and patients alike. But we need to get ahead of ourselves and come out on top for only not our survival, but also the survival of our population and healthcare system.
本文评估了巴基斯坦政府所提供的资源、策略、实验室检测、宣传活动和不同的治疗方案。
我们通过 Medline/PubMed、Embase、Web of Science 和 Google Scholar 以及巴基斯坦政府和国际组织的官方网站进行了全面的文献检索，以确定从 2019 年至 2020 年 6 月期间以英文发表的实证文献。
直到 2019 年 12 月底，中国湖北省才发现首例 2019 年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）病例，武汉成为疫情中心，使全国进入为期 11 周的封锁状态。这是首例此类疾病，以前从未见过；因此，基于其新颖性，中国当局将其命名为新型冠状病毒（2019-nCOV）。截至 2020 年 1 月 23 日，武汉仅有 17 例病例，到 2020 年 2 月 16 日增至约 60,000 例，死亡人数为 2000 人。世界卫生组织于 2020 年 1 月 30 日宣布其为全球大流行。巴基斯坦于 2 月在卡拉奇报告首例严重急性呼吸系统综合征冠状病毒 2 病例。当时，我们没有意识到我们所面临的威胁，而且我们可用的资源更少，这将在未来几天成为巴基斯坦的一场重大灾难。
COVID-19 危机可能会对普通民众、医护人员和患者产生短期和长期的影响。但我们需要未雨绸缪，取得胜利，不仅是为了我们的生存，也是为了我们的人口和医疗体系的生存。
