探花精选 president and CEO David Miliband provides a weekly video update on the new coronavirus, COVID-19, and the 探花精选's response.
We鈥檙e all reading in the media of the pressure on health systems in some of the most advanced, industrialized countries in the world. We鈥檙e tracking the hospitalization rate, the daily death toll. We all know the pressure that鈥檚 on nursing staff and doctors as well as the wider health community. But if it鈥檚 tough to fight COVID in countries with the best health systems, imagine what it鈥檚 like where there hardly is a health system to speak of.
Just this week the 探花精选 has published a report studying the challenge in four countries that reflect the humanitarian crisis that we鈥檙e fighting around the world.South Sudan has just four ventilators for the whole country. In Venezuela, half of the doctors have fled the country. That鈥檚 why non-governmental organizations like the 探花精选 are so important. Employing local staff to help fight the disease like COVID.
We know that the world will only be safe from this disease when every part of the world gets the preventative work, as well as eventually, the treatments and the vaccine that are necessary. We also know that any chain is only as strong as its weakest link. And that鈥檚 why as a matter of interest as well as morality it鈥檚 vital that we take the fight against COVID to all corners of the world.
We鈥檝e launched a really wonderful platform this week, refugees.rescue.org, which is designed to ensure that all of the refugee doctors and nurses in America are able to sign up for the global fight against the disease. I hope that they will make use of it and they will be able to put their skills to work. This is a global fight and we鈥檝e all got to muck in in any way that we can. Thanks very much for listening
