The country – and the world – is continuing to focus on the fight against the Covid19, but experts are cautioning against neglecting other crucial health interventions, particularly targeting equally deadly non-communicable diseases.
The country – and the world – is continuing to focus on the fight against the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, moving with tunnel vision and ploughing human and financial resources into curbing the spread of the infectious virus.
As of Monday night, there were more than 3.4 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the 210 countries and territories it has spread to, according to the World Health Organisation, and more than 239 000 deaths. She added that people with compromised immune systems were also at a higher risk of developing complications from Covid-19, as viral infections in people undergoing active chemotherapy or intensive radiotherapy, for instance, could be harder to deal with as those treatments weakened immune systems.
“NCDs are not very often mentioned in Covid-19 strategy media briefings or in key messaging and communication products in countries. The main point is that Covid-19 may compromise access to and quality of healthcare services for NCDs. But it’s not only the delivery of healthcare services when it comes to NCD patients that is of concern for experts during this response to Covid-19. Vaccination programmes also matter.The WHO’s Africa region warned that even brief interruptions of vaccination activities made other outbreaks more likely to occur, such as the resurgence of measles in some African counties.
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