Who knows who survives and who doesn’t but whenever , coronavirus completes its cycle and tapers off ,it will have left behind a trail of survivors who are going to adopt a life style which is going to be entirely different from the one that prevailed in the post coronavirus period.
This pandemic has taught us umpteen lessons but two out of them stand out conspicuously. It is a pity that our rulers failed to do much to spread education and Medicare to all and sundry during the past 70 years. Isn’t it odd that a country which made an atomic bomb was short of ventilators? Granted that state -of_ the _art hospitals have sprung up in the country but has anybody ever thought how many Pakistanis can afford to seek medical treatment in them should they fall ill because of their exorbitant consultation fee and medical treatment.? The rulers committed criminal negligence by ignoring to equip district and tehsil level hospitals in the public sector with all the necessary medical wherewithal which are available in private hospitals Isn’t it a tragedy of the first magnitude that most of our hospitals in the public sectors don’t have anti rabis and and snake bite vaccine ?
Imran Khan did well by drawing the attention of the world community to the financial setback received by the third world due to the coronavirus pandemic in his TV address to them recently and very rightly underscored the need on the part of the rich countries to help assist the down trodden countries so that they could find their feet soon. The World bank would have to waive off the loans of the third world countries or reschedule them because most of them are simply not in a position to clear their debts.
