Is Pakistan ready for MERS virus and ebola virus threat ?

[shaikh]

Pakistan is not at major risk as far as spread of Ebola virus is concerned , but to assume that some ebola virus patient can land in Pakistan is not impossible . Pakistan has a presence in for example Liberia , related to UN duties , army and police officers are posted there .Similarly in west Africa including in Ebola afflicted west african countries there is a small Pakistani origin Ahmediya community .A few Pakistani business people might still be there.Before civil war in these regions there was significant Labanese and Indian business communities .

It seems to me that too much death rate and spread of ebola to medical doctors and nurses is largely due to the fact that this virus needs complete prefabricated , temperature and oxygen supplied designed spacesuits , beds, designed to deal ICU type leaky victims , special type drips ,blood sources with central giving systems and that ordinary operation theatre like clothes and hospital traditions will not suffice . Our engineers have to design that as similar things will be needed for MERS .


MERS virus infection is more likely to spread to Pakistan than ebola .This because its epicentre is middle east and Saudia , I am not sure our health authorities have designated specialized ICU in various areas of Pakistan so that if it arrives it can be dealt with in confined space , like Ebola.

One of the best way to get ready for ebola and MERS challenge is to announce some grant for special new hospital units , possibly makeshift in trawlers but with all amenities and fittings , medical and otherwise so that disease does not spread . Like Dengue it is an engineering challenge not only medical challenge .

So what can our engineers do for us in containing these when they arrive , politicians as usual will fail In technical issues .

UK recieves both patients and visitors from world over and it has given warnings and instructions to its doctors .

There are already allegations that government is hiding Dengue figures.

 

[noworries]

اپ کا مطلب ھہ کہ ھر انے جانےٓ والے کو پھر سکین کیا اجائے ایبولا وائرس کے خطرے کی وجہ سے

 

[jagga9]

shaikh saab draya na kero ...

sattu pee ker sutay aan assi

 

[First Strike]

Bhai sb Ebola & mars virus is nothing when it comes to Nazoo virus, Shazoo virus and Gullu virus.

Anyway Allah save Pakistan from all evils (Aameen)

 

[shaikh]

انے جانےٓ والے کو پھر سکین کیا اجائے ایبولا وائرس کے خطرے کی وجہ سے[/QUOTE]

Some airlines have stopped flights to countries with ebola outbreak . Though this disease is not new but somehow this time it is not dying down quicky but it is spreading . We Pakistanis are not much at risk but MERS virus is definitely a risk for us ,probably a patient or so did pass through Pakistan but the government like previous governments tries to suppress information coming to media. The government suppresses similarly information about the rare fatal reactions to polio vaccines.

Screening for Ebola is not easy but my fear is that we are not forced in future to return to old quarantine regimes when people were forced to stay in camps outside destination countries for three weeks for fear of spreading epidemic which was often plague.


We need to be ready to fight technically diseases like swine flu, bird flu,Congo hemorrhagic fever ,Ebola, MERS ,and other similar highly infectious ailments ,prevention is more cheap and safer than curing procedure but special dresses for caring persons and special beds and disposable gadgets really need to be made available .

the technical requirements for caring advanced dengue patient, or these above resemble each other slightly except that dengue is not transmitted so readily as Ebola or CHF or MERS or bird flus but they would need fluids , blood products , organ failure reversal strategies and gadgets , I.e everything faster , more and mobile .

We are told that there is some similarity in treating any serious patient and such diseases as above ,but here we also need to bury safely , destroy infected equipments which cannot be sterilized .

 

[shaikh]

shaikh saab draya na kero ...

sattu pee ker sutay aan assi

I hope that Sattu proves to be effective against all ailments ,but purpose of this post was to bring to attention the need to improve dresses and gadgets and patient beds and their needed supporting devices , all needing new designs before Ebola like illnesses take root , engineering is needed . The chance of any of us suffering from these is statistically very low ,rest assured .