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RETRACTED: Healthcare strategies and initiatives about COVID19 in Pakistan: Telemedicine a way to look forward
Ayesha Humayuna b, Syed Shahabuddinc, Saira Afzald, Ahmad Azam Malike f, Suleman Atiqueg✉, Usman Iqbala h i✉
- aDepartment of public health and community medicine, Shaikh Zayed Federal Post Graduate Medical Institute, Shaikh Zayed Medical Complex, Lahore, Pakistan
- bShaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan Medical and Dental College, Shaikh Zayed Medical Complex, Lahore, Pakistan
- cDept. of Surgery, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan
- dDept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Dept. of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, King Edward Medical University, Lahore, Pakistan
- eDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine in Rabigh, King, Abdul Aziz University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- fInstitute of Public Health, The University of Lahore, Pakistan
- gDepartment of Health Informatics, College of Public Health and Health Informatics, University of Ha'il, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- hInternational Center for Health Information Technology (ICHIT), Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
- iMaster Program in Global Health & Development, PhD Program in Global Health & Health Security, College of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the unprecedented devastating catastrophes with severe public health threat globally. Low and middle income countries (LMICs) are trying hard to cope with the rapidly changing global scenario and trying to mitigate this double crisis of pandemic and economic recession. This pandemic, has led to major changes in global and regional health care delivery proceedings with surge in telemedicine to provide the required services and also giving priority to control the disease spread.