The Emerging of Dilemma in the Health Care System
When we talk about the dilemma in the health care structure, we are basically targeting the rapid conditions from which it emerges such as, the speedy process of urbanization, population aging, industrialization in which the phenomenon for the profit gain, the potential of extravagant corporatization in the public hospitals, exhausted relationship between doctor and patient, the excessive burden on the affectees and their families and many more other factors are included.
The dilemmas related to health care structure should of be major scrutiny to the local as well as international health care bodies, in which the leaders working in the primary care delivery networks, students, professionals of academia, government, and global ministerial officials who have interest in the health care structure and the policy development are included.
The Covid-19 and Dilemmas
The tough times of pandemic encountered many dilemmas in the clothing sector, and health care sector. The most affected group was none but the public who had received many unwanted situations and emergencies that were unable to be born in the initial phases. The COVID-19 situation raised many problematic and controversial medical ethical dilemmas.
In the discussion that follows, the penned article is an effort to bring into light some of the dilemmas raised from novel coronavirus.
Some Dilemmas Imposed By COVID-19
The Treatment Dilemma
The novel coronavirus outbreak ignited the burning necessity of an equal number of aids, doctors, nurses, and treatment. But as ill would have it, we witnessed the decreasing number of medical assistance with every passing day. The health care professionals had to make some heart-wrenching decisions at the covid ward for seriously ill patients. There were fewer ICUs, staff, and ventilators, and giving them to which patient was always a tough decision for them.
The fair distribution of the resources in a way that the most severe ones got safe became a critical dilemma in the whole health care sector. This gave rise to the need for screening patients to know who could sustain in quarantine and who needs urgent critical care.
However, we reached a point where we didn’t screen all the million folks to determine which one is at higher risk or lower risk. Which in result made the low-risk group people getting infected while coming into contact with higher-risk people. The whole balance got disturbed drastically.
The COVID-19 outbreak drove the healthcare professionals into a racking emergency situation. Patients were removed from the ventilators who were considered to die sooner or later. Which, in normal cases doesn’t happen the same. Doctors keep the patients on ventilators until they hope for even the slightest recovery. However, due to less number of ventilators delicate livelihoods were kept at stake.
The Testing Dilemma
When the COVID-19 first appeared in Jan 2019, tests were being conducted at a faster rate. The tests were done by keeping in mind the vitality of diagnosing the patient at an earlier stage. The step was taken to limit the spread of the disease, but the prioritization was not done accordingly.
For instance, a player with symptoms when tested and came out COVID-positive, his other companion players were also tested. But, what about other street persons who might have interacted with the players? They remained untested.
The Dilemma for Health Care Staff Working
The situation was and is still worst, as the world is now observing the third wave of the novel virus. But despite the worsening situation, doctors and medical staff were and are bound to act as front-line soldiers no matter how strong the lockdown is imposed for the public.
This necessity for being present in the hospitals created strange havoc. On one side, the government stressed over imposing a lockdown and its variants such as mini-lockdown or smart-lockdown to save the public from covid effects. On the other hand, there was and is no safety rule for medical staff. Many doctors and nurses have been reportedly died while getting infected from the severely ill people who were their patients. No matter how many precautionary measures the medical staff take, mask out themselves, they are still in the massive danger zone.
Just like other common men who are concerned about their health, medical staff also feel the same. However, they are more subjected to embrace the potential health risks due to the direct exposure to the virus while treating the patients. When asked them, they expressed that they also don’t want to get sick but for them, duty comes first.
However, the whole story surrounds the fact that the health staff is being looked to provide aid and ease in tough times, and this is the only reason that they are amongst the sectors where the major portion of the budget is invested in.
The takeaway is if there are no sufficient protective gear in the hospitals, the hospitals can’t compel their staff to show up and execute their respective duties. It is their utmost responsibility to offer the safety essentials, first of all, otherwise, the hospitals would become a graveyard for both the patients and the staff working over there.
The Dilemma of Vaccination
The whole year followed by the disease outbreak passed by in the struggle to come up with a vaccine that could combat the deadly contagious virus. However, the struggle went long and in the meanwhile, the world witnessed the second wave of the covid-19.
To the sigh of relief, after some ample amount of time vaccination came. But due to the insufficient number of production and the uncontrollable tally of the affectees, the decision and policymakers had their tough times in making rational verdicts to treat the population.
There was a need for prioritization. Who to be vaccinated first? The genius minds prioritized as the first group that needs to be vaccinated first are the medical staff, then the ones who are supporting the economy like the businessmen, and then who are balancing the world harmony like police and firefighters.
However, the ranking missed the most crucial element of the society “the layman”.
The Final Say
In a nutshell, we can conclude that the abstract of the healthcare structure and the nature of the health assets are so important in resolving the dilemma of the primary care adjustment and improvement. In the light of this discussion, fiscaology should be the theoretical basis of the primary care reform that primarily considers the government as the major accountable body rather than the economics related to health that focuses on the anti-monopoly. Home Health Care Boca Raton strives to sustain its health sector economy by focusing on embracing the fiscaology.
