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Speed race with Corona
Dr. Hossam Badrawi
The tech-savvy young man and his colleagues said to me: What do you think, Doctor, if we decided to be a decentralized, digital youth shadow government that would help the traditional legitimate government and be an arm of it?
I said: Caution guys, we are with legitimacy and the law, and some of those in charge of the matter might think that you are jostling for power.
They said: We also respect legitimacy and the law. The issue is that all the people speak and give fatwas in the social media. Everyone receives dozens of posters and reports, and there is no one to filter them for us and return the scientific references to us, saying this is true and this is not true. Moreover, the government’s decisions, even if they are correct, follow events and do not precede them.
It is a race of speed with the epidemic, not just facts and procedures.
I said: What do you suggest?
One of them said: We will start with what the decentralized government has not initiated, and the executive officer of the governor will come out of us, and let him be in the province of [+.] In a webcast on air and on the local television radio station in his province to speak with the citizens of the province.
We will assume that he will mention the statistical facts in his governorate, for example, the number of villages, centers and cities / the number of people with their age and nationality divisions in every place / in particular the number of elderly and people with chronic diseases and their locations. Then the Executive Officer of the Governor moves on to other statistics on the number of government, university and private hospitals / the number of intensive care beds in each geographical area and / the number of respirators in service / the number of doctors and nursing staff members available in the governorate.
Of course, with the geographical distribution of pharmacies..
And we imagine, Doctor, that he has knowledge of the medical supplies and consumables needed for citizens and health care teams, commensurate with the probabilities of the number of patients in whom the disease may spread.
Of course, in a scientific framework of possibilities.
His colleague said: These are all statistical information that we imagine exist, and we will move to the next point necessary for the dynamics of the relationship with the population, and to clarify the importance of isolation and non-mixing, in addition to means of increasing immunity and identifying agreed advice, saying it and distributing it.
Her colleague said: Now the responsible team has to show the province’s health protection and call them by name to let the citizens know that he does not work alone and that there is a professional vision to confront the situation, which receives general rules of behavior from the central government and has the necessary flexibility on the ground to act.
Then it is time to answer the important questions of citizens:
– What is the truth about the spread of the virus in the governorate, in every hamlet and village… and a neighborhood in a city!.
– What if the citizen has mild symptoms, what are they, where should he go?
– What if a citizen has severe symptoms, how can he take a test to know if he has corona or not?
– If the test is negative, does he continue to isolate himself and for how long?
– And if the test is positive, then where do we go? Every citizen wants to know where to go?
– If the case requires intensive care, to where?
What if there are no places in intensive care?
Can the treatment of malaria be used, as is rumored, to treat the Corona virus?
– And if the citizen is cured, then what is after recovery!!.
– And if the patient dies, why the ban on burial, as we hear?
The questions of a simple citizen who wants specific instructions commensurate with his place of residence, quality of life, education and knowledge must be answered. We have to use social media to benefit him and facilitate his life.
Another young woman said: I also imagine that there is a 24-hour service and a place for communication to answer citizens’ questions from the office of the governorate’s work team, no matter how frequent they are and no matter how simple and clear they are.
Another young man said: There are many young doctors who need encouragement and support, and I imagine that the doctors of each hospital will be trained and redistributed to departments… and announcing the readiness of each department with its doctors and nursing staff.
As well as training internship doctors in medical colleges and distributing them to hospitals.. In addition to calling the doctors of the Ministry of Health who may have been out of service.
His colleague said: I also imagined an announcement that the Ministry of Industry, Health and Military Industry would discuss changing production lines for a number of companies to work on manufacturing respirators, masks, sterile materials, beds, solutions and medicines.. and everything we need in case spread.
Another young man said: Why is the private medical sector not participating in contributing with countries to bear the burden? Qualified private hospitals must be limited and reached an agreement with their management, to provide departments to confront the virus and the state should intervene to bear the expenses .. whether by dropping taxes or with a direct contribution from the state .. or a contribution from private hospitals.
One of the young men said: I envision a cooperation protocol with mobile phone companies to link field hospitals, government hospitals, private hospitals, armed forces hospitals, the Ministry of Health… and the Mobilization and Statistics Authority. They have the reach and technology and I know they help with health insurance programs.
Information transfer, analysis, and knowledge of accurate statistics is the basis for vital decisions.
I said: The truth is, I am proud of you and your way of thinking, and I remind you that most of what you have expressed, the state may exist without sufficient information.
Perhaps we may benefit the readers by placing a bar code of the best scientifically written on this epidemic, as a kind of sifting through the flood of information in which the truth may get lost.
