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Weaknesses in health system ?responsible for rising disease insecurity?
Shahina Maqbool
Saturday, February 05, 2011
Islamabad
Pakistan has many institutional mechanisms in place for the prevention and control of Pandemic Influenza H1N1 but these are plagued with fragmentation, duplication and resource constraints. Hence, the impression that compared to many other Asian countries, the outbreak of Pandemic Influenza H1N1 2009 was comparatively of minor concern to Pakistan, was misplaced. A lot of cases had been missed or under-reported due to the absence of a well-established and integrated countrywide surveillance system.
These views have been expressed by the president of Heartfile, Dr. Sania Nishtar, in a paper that has just been published by the Singapore-based RSIS Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies. The paper focuses on one aspect of health security-epidemiological security-which deals with threats from emerging and re-emerging infections, in particular specific lessons from the recent H1N1 outbreak...
Weaknesses in health system ?responsible for rising disease insecurity?
Shahina Maqbool
Saturday, February 05, 2011
Islamabad
Pakistan has many institutional mechanisms in place for the prevention and control of Pandemic Influenza H1N1 but these are plagued with fragmentation, duplication and resource constraints. Hence, the impression that compared to many other Asian countries, the outbreak of Pandemic Influenza H1N1 2009 was comparatively of minor concern to Pakistan, was misplaced. A lot of cases had been missed or under-reported due to the absence of a well-established and integrated countrywide surveillance system.
These views have been expressed by the president of Heartfile, Dr. Sania Nishtar, in a paper that has just been published by the Singapore-based RSIS Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies. The paper focuses on one aspect of health security-epidemiological security-which deals with threats from emerging and re-emerging infections, in particular specific lessons from the recent H1N1 outbreak...