While discussing with one of my colleagues on how to make effective interventions in the Covid treatment scenario in our University, it came upon me to learn something more about the Covid virus treatment protocols design of treatment centers etc. when I came across one of my friends speaking about World Health Organization (WHO) online courses.
WHO has been proactively involving itself, first with China, though it has been misunderstood very badly of late, to improve the awareness and preparedness of nations to meet the Covid 19 pandemic. There is no other international organisation like WHO that has the competitive ability to intervene across geographical boundaries to alleviate the harmful impact of the virus and to take effective steps to control the spread of the pandemic.
After downloading the OpenWHO app from Google store, I went through the courses being offered. Joined for the eProtect course and by Saturday evening completed. I found that this was one of the best ways to get authentic information about the virus and different treatments there was no looking back.
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| WHO DG Dr. Tedris Ghebreyesus Adhanom |
1. Course 1 on eProtect Respiratory Infections
2. Course 2 on Emerging respiratory viruses, including COVID-19 :
methods for detection, prevention, response and control
3. Course 3 on COVID-19: Operational Planning Guidelines
and COVID-19 Partners Platform to support
country preparedness and response
5. Course 5 on Standard Procedure in hand hygiene
6. Course 6 on Standard Precautions in Waste Management.
7. Course 7 on Environmental Cleaning and disinfection
8. Course 8 on How to put and remove PPE
9. Course 9 on Decontamination and Sterilization of Medical Devices
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| The Kubler Ross grief cycle .. |
Unfortunately these 6 courses never mentioned about the human stresses because of the Covid 19 infection and how to handle these stresses effectively.
The Kubler-Ross grief cycle (given here) is a curve that gives the various stages through which people pass when overcome with real grief (or anticipatory grief) .
Click here for the HBR article of Mar '20 here ..
According to me, the migrant worker population in India are already in the descending part of the KR curve, given that they were the first in the country to go back to their native states. The office going staff are slightly up, yet to face reality .. After reaching the native states the workers are relaxed but the feeling of what next and where next has gripped them.. They are in the process of descending the curve fast ..
Will awareness of the harmful potential of the virus help them to explore alternate ways to face the life-crisis ? Will people for the time being, turn to agriculture, as a means to improve their livelihoods and overcome the desperation ?
According to me, the migrant worker population in India are already in the descending part of the KR curve, given that they were the first in the country to go back to their native states. The office going staff are slightly up, yet to face reality .. After reaching the native states the workers are relaxed but the feeling of what next and where next has gripped them.. They are in the process of descending the curve fast ..
Will awareness of the harmful potential of the virus help them to explore alternate ways to face the life-crisis ? Will people for the time being, turn to agriculture, as a means to improve their livelihoods and overcome the desperation ?
George
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