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The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a dire warning. The collapse of the medical system due to the coronavirus has far more dramatic effects than doctors anticipated.
Since patients infected with the new coronavirus were a priority in hospitals around the world, there were many patients who no longer had access to medical services.
For example, in Africa, patients no longer had access to medical services that could be used to combat mosquito-borne diseases, with the risk that the number of people killed by this disease would be much greater than the number of people who died. by coronavirus.
More than 400,000 people have died from the relentless disease.
In just one year, some 400,000 people have died from the disease. And the number has great potential to increase, specialists announce. Most of them were babies born in extremely poor areas of Africa.
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“Our estimates are that depending on the level of service interruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, there could be an increased number of malaria deaths between 20,000 and 100,000 in sub-Saharan Africa, mainly among young children,” said the director. WHO Malaria Program, Pedro Alsonso.
Malaria, more dangerous than the coronavirus
“It is very likely that the wave of mortality from malaria is greater than the direct mortality from Covid-19,” he added.
“But long-term success in achieving a malaria-free world in one generation is far from assured,” he said.
“The world of global health, the media and politics are all focused on the Covid pandemic and yet we pay very little attention to a disease that kills more than 400,000 people each year, mostly children.” said Peter Sands, CEO. of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
