Building A Resilient Health Infrastructure And Cold Supply Chains
- Pakistan's health spending needs to shift solely from curative measures to preventive measures in the longer run (such as vaccination campaigns).
- Social support should be strengthened at a community level, and that social support groups and counselling services should be established at a state level to provide psychosocial support to families.
- Considering that there is a comparatively smaller number of women who are vaccinated, the planning and deployment of vaccine delivery must be gender sensitive. The reasons for fewer women being vaccinated must be analyzed, and awareness campaigns should be run to overcome this distribution.
- Reproductive health and family planning should be classified as essential services to ensure that they remain a priority even during a crisis. Experts on maternal and neonatal health should be included in COVID response task forces in addition to infectious disease experts.
- There is a need to create a multi-sectoral effort with collaboration between the health sector and non-health sector to address the remaining points of the declaration as well, including sanitation, nutrition, safe water, and more.
- For a sustainable transition of the health system, financing institutions, corporates, and multi-lateral banks must recognize climate and health as a priority focus.
- To ensure a safe and healthy environment for children growth, there is a need for authentic and credible data relevant to child-related SDG indicators.
- For a resilient health system, there is a need to create an observatory mechanism that can enable continued support to all relevant stakeholders in research and implementation of climate change and health adaptation plans.
- Health units and medical facilities must be upgraded and facilitated with essential medicines and nutrition systems to cure health issues and diseases resulting from climate change.
- For alleviation of tobacco, tax administration should monitor the illicit trade, and “quitting facilitation centres” can be established to gauge tobacco dependency along with the introduction of behavioural modification techniques.
