Developing uniform solutions to combating the pandemic are difficult given differing capabilities, says Akash Sahu.
NEW DELHI: Vietnam, as the chair of the Association of South East Asian Nations in 2020, convened a special ASEAN Summit online on Tuesday to discuss the situation of health and COVID-19 across the member nations.
That explains why Tuesday’s meeting stressed on deeper collaboration and a joint response to the coronavirus. This disparity will make any regional cooperation on health difficult and these challenges will appear from now until the June summit.On average, according to the World Bank, there are 0.8 doctors per 1,000 people within ASEAN. But the picture is different in each country with there being 2.3 and 1.8 doctors per 1,000 people in Singapore and Brunei respectively. At the other end of the spectrum, Laos and Cambodia have each less than 0.5 doctors per 1,000 people.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong speaks to leaders in the region via video conference during a Special ASEAN Summit on COVID-19 on Apr 14, 2020. Health tech firms could ease the inequalities as much of the diagnostic services can be improved drastically through advancement in technology and digitisation.
“Closing our borders completely would therefore only deprive us all of goods and products that we can produce together, hurting our economies and worsening unemployment.” Injection of more funds into research and development are crucial for the healthcare industry in the region, considering greater privatisation in the recent years.
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