Like any information on the crawler laroche or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast so you can get it wherever you can get your podcast you can also find us at. Science. As Health Systems around the world concentrate on fighting a pandemic it can be hard to remember that other ailments exist. But at a time like this those who were already sick are among the most vulnerable. Its with a well recognized trite that in any emergency situation in any president situation those who have. To do more do worse than they would otherwise because the movement. Is a resource to wards the. There are patients who are diabetes hypertensive beckoned me patients who needed medication needed everywhere dialysis and all that so what ever is there and it was just a visit to the hospital they should come. Indigenous populations as i mentioned before. In security type 2 diabetes are affected by endemic diseases so just tb and malaria. Then more likely to suffer the burden of this. In the era of the coronavirus how can we ensure that everyone is taken care of. This is the w. s covert 900. 00 special im Kate Ferguson thanks for joining me for months that has dominated our news forecasts shaped our fears and altered our behavior but at what cost as the worlds resources and attention i 1st took over at 19 other diseases are being cast into the shadows its a phenomenon that can be seen all over the world including in the belgian capital. For a. Long ball is happy to be finally treating patients again the eye specialist at the hospital in brussels has only been seeing 2 or 3 people a day another corona locked down a drop of almost 90 percent even though the surgical medical retina theyve seen a drop in the in the surgical problem for retinal detachment for example. Nearly no cases in which is actually not possible for people to see the one true people are scared of contracting the virus in the hospital like live law she could lose her eyesight if she doesnt get regular treatment its took her all the courage she could muster to come here today. Im very afraid of catching the virus apart from my eye problems i also have respect so yes im afraid. No usually more theyre not happy doctors say theyve never experienced anything like it belgium was among the countries worst affected by the pandemic but infection numbers are now in decline this hospital has only 30 corona patients down from 120. 00 at the height of the crisis and they are strictly sekret. Since early mate belgian hospitals have been allowed to offer a limited number of nonurgent consultations but people are not taking them up on the offer the consequences are dire not only for patients but for the entire Health Sector says the director general of some pierre hospital 1st and foremost describes is. Has really put the hospitals all the obstacles in the country under our know the water in financially speaking so we have lost dogs and of 1000000 euros. Just because we were taking care of patients we had to stop Everything Else and Everything Else is what brings money to us the director expects the hospital to be 40 to 50000000 euros in the red this year he wants the governments to step in and compensate hospitals without state health he says his hospital will have to cut all investments to stay afloat that would mean not maintaining and modernizing equipment scores of medics turned their backs on belgiums Prime Minister during her recent visits to the hospital one of them was julia best state he says stuff has been shouldering the enormous boughten of an already weakened system. To form to educate and you know says you know so we in or 60 of the we have a lot of employees so everybodys under pressure everybody is. The stress and money isnt the only problem restrictions in the ongoing emergency plan leave so pure hospital operating at just 30 percent capacity we would like the government to relax some of the rules completely understand the worry about the 2nd wave and the fact that we still need to be ready and we will but we also need to take care of all the noncoding patients who are also suffering from you know serious diseases for many of them and diseases that could have can see quinces as bad or even you know worst. Of it particularly if these patients all comment once. That a wave of people desperately seeking treatment could be on the way to avoid that shes encouraging patients to come now she says that the hospitals are safe and whats more waiting times for an appointment are shorter than ever. To find out more about the effect the coronavirus have had on the treatment of other diseases im joined now by dr massoud dara hes the coordinator of the Communicable Diseases program at the World Health Organization is a breach office for europe dr dhar welcome to the program youve warned that the focus on covert 19 comes particularly at the expense of other to Infectious Diseases especially tuberculosis and hiv tell me about what hospitals are experiencing right now. There are several challenges that you have here particularly and the time. Is easiest to do. Services are not people are not. Diagnoses but also very much concern in terms of making sure. Whos on the right. Now your work focuses on europe specifically what are the biggest issues here. Obviously the challenge is that we should make sure that all of the services are provided and diseases that are extremely important particularly Infectious Diseases are being taking car off and we call them essential Health Services very important as you know particularly didnt lockdowns. Recent study showed that 3 months of the law. May have almost 6000000 more people getting infected to be too great closed as you know one of every 4 person in the world hes already infected the tuberculosis and weve made it look at these ease in any time soon despair important to have time to diagnosis now the challenge is that if the Diagnosis Services are not have a label or if they are diverted to focus on covert 19 these people will not be detected on time and as a result in a study by you stop your partnership showed at 1400000 more people will die on you due to these 3 months of the lock on gloomily from now in 2025 so thats very important elements of take into account to make sure that services are provided. As you know the challenge is that we should make sure also the air detection of the people but also theyre put on treatment because once people are time treatment given not be infecting other people and if you have a Healthy Lifestyle then thats a challenge that you have to make sure the services is essentially provided her ok so some cage challenges here and this is of course a global problem so i fight if europe what areas of the world are you most worried about us. We should be worried about the whole world Infectious Diseases 3 of those in order. To be more specific very specious basically if you have the Health System not the strong and very the poverty to me see more Infectious Diseases recent World Publications and judy estimates that the 19 and Economy Class me have from 70 to more than 100000000 to both. Being on going to the extreme poverty and of course very have poverty also that Infectious Diseases about so extremely important to be very conscious that we need to invest more Infectious Diseases as well as noninvasive serious but also health and life of the people across the planet dr matthew thank you so much for your time. Time now to answer your questions about coven 19 over to our science correspondent derrick williams. Is there any proof that chloroquine or hydrochloric wouldnt benefit patients. At the beginning of this pandemic anecdotal evidence about patients who had supposedly been cured with the help of a chloroquine derivative touched off a race to find out if it can help against hope at 19 setting setting in motion what one colleague in or in a recent article called a fog of alleged misconduct hope hide and politicization its really a beautiful description i really wish id come up with it after bouncing back and forth on the topic however major studies including the largest one are now coming to some negative conclusions about the anti malarial drugs its researchers ended it early because convincing preliminary results strongly indicated hydroxy chloroquine has no effect on mortality other studies looking at using the compound as a prophylactic to prevent people from catching coppa 19 were also discouraging the w. H. O. Is expected to make a recommendation on the issue sometime this week. Is it true that people who are asymptomatic are unlikely to infect others we know that some of the people who contract cope at 19 never show symptoms that we we still dont know how many could be a lot so its not surprising that a comment made by a w. H. O. Representative at a press Conference Last Week about asymptomatic patients being very rare trans matters that it caused an uproar thats because the statements seem to imply that that symptomless people dont really pose a danger to others if that were true maybe anyone. Not showing symptoms could for example stop wearing a mask the problem is its impossible to know whether if you have coke at 19 you might actually only be precent a matic instead of asymptomatic and start showing symptoms tomorrow and precint dramatic people are likely to be highly contagious so even if it turns out that truly asymptomatic people are not very infectious which still hasnt been proven it shouldnt affect anyones behavior because distinguishing between asymptomatic and precint emetic people is at this stage in possible. Thanks for watching. Big pharma under pressure. Huge protests against a buyer of German Corporation that makes insecticides. For years studies of war and that these materials are damaging the environment. But the manufacturers continue to make huge profits for. The buyer and to be closer. To w. Armstrong really walk on the moon. Isnt the earth really flat hafter all. The government used planes to poison us. 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