Santhosh's ramblings

Much has been written and shared about COVID19 and ongoing responses. But mostly from places where the epidemic is quite advanced and more so, from resource rich contexts, struggling to contain and mitigate even with all their resources. The resources they have is not enough for the numbers they are facing. The resource limited nations thus far have much lesser numbers than the richer and developed nations. But for health care professionals in such contexts, this is not a time for complicity, but a time to refocus and reorganize for when we would face similar or many more numbers of patients with much lesser resources to respond with. This article considers some questions that health care professionals in resource limited settings and developing nations need to consider as we look ahead, with a lack of clarity, to what the future holds for COVID19 pandemic. Most of our nations are in lockdown. Experiences from countries that acted early and tried to contain the epidemic, show

The COVID19 epidemic has thrown nations into complete chaos.   Fear and panic have gripped   the world. Many nations are struggling with the impact of large numbers of people falling ill and increasing numbers of new infections. Many nations are preparing for an eventuality of such a context, but struggling, not knowing what they should be doing since the current generation of leaders in the world has not faced such a pandemic before. Health care Institutions and organizations are struggling with     questions of their own responses, and their staff safety. Institutions in the developing world, challenged with their resource constraints but with a desire to make a difference in such a context, are considering what they should do at this unprecedented time in the history of the world. How should leaders respond at such a time as this? If we listen to the media reports, we hear stories of leaders denying the problem, other leaders giving into panic, yet others using the unfoldi