Corona trysts you can find more Information Online at d w dot com and on t. W. Social media channels. At Health Systems around the world concentrate on fighting a pandemic it can be hard to remember that other ailment think 50. But at a time like this those where our freddys fick are among the most vulnerable. Its with a well recognized trite that in any emergency situation in any situation those who. Is also do more do worse than they would otherwise because the movement. Resource to wards the pandemic. There are patients who are diabetes hypertension significant new patients who need their medication needed it dialysis and all that so what ever is requires must a visit to the hospital they should come indigenous populations as i mentioned before i reach for the insecurity type 2 diabetes are affected by endemic diseases so just tb and malaria. Theyre 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 for it costs shaped our fears and altered our behavior but at what cost as the worlds resources and attention to covert 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. Where a. 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 lockdown a drop of almost 90 percent even though the surgical medical red theyve seen a drop in the surgical problems such as retinal detachment for example. Nearly no cases in a crew is actually not possible for people to the one true people are scared of contracting the virus in the hospital like live long 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 responded to issues so yes im afraid. Not usually not though their copy 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. As really puts the hospitals all the obstacles in the country under the water financially speaking so we have lost dogs 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 government 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 Stores of medics turned their backs on belgiums Prime Minister during her recent visits to the hospital one of them was julia best day he says stuff has been shouldering the enormous boredom of an already weakened system. To form and to educate and you know says you know so we in or 6th of the piece there with 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 way for 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 has 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 Regional Office for europe dr dara welcome to the program youve warned that the focus on covert 19 comes particularly at the expense of tracing 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 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 part to the Infectious Diseases are being taking car off and we call them essential Health Services very important as you know particularly didnt you 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 me to a very close is made of a lot of these ease in any time so does very important to have time to diagnosis and the challenge is that if the Diagnosis Services are not available or if they are diverted to focus on covert 19 these people will not be detected on time and as a result a study by you stop your Partnership Show that 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 taking account to make sure that services are provided one inch i. E. 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 up and down treatment given not be infecting other people and you can have a Healthy Lifestyle and thats the challenge that you have to make sure the series is is essentially provided her ok so some huge 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 in order. To be more specific very specious and basically if you have the Health System not a strong. Varies of poverty to me see more Infectious Diseases recent World Publications and julie estimates that the 19 and economy could last me half from 72 more 100000000 to both. Being on going to extreme poverty and of course very to have poverty also having pictures that is about so extremely important to be very conscious that we need to invest more Infectious Diseases as well as noninvasive yes but also health and life of the people across the planet dr martin thank you so much for your time. Time now to answer your questions about coven 1000 over to our science correspondent derrick williams. Is there any proof that chloroquine or hydroxyl cleric 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 politicisation 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 antimalarial 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 any symptomatic 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 it 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 transmitters that it caused an uproar thats because the statement seemed to imply that that symptomless people dont really pose a danger to others if that were true maybe any. One 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 emetic 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 domestic people is at this stage impossible. Thanks for watching the. Kids come on this time the deal is upon the the table. Lightning strike against relegation outscoring game points and minds are now probably safe. 5 goals for home. Grey mens convincing women born there dreaming of remaining in the league. Big pharma under pressure. Huge protests against the buyer a German Corporation that makes insecticides. For years studies of war and these materials are damaging the environment. 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