AI Article Synopsis
- Infectious Disease Surveillance (IDS) helps communities spot and stop sickness outbreaks, which is super important in countries like Pakistan where many people die from diseases that could be prevented.
- Pakistan has a system to track diseases, but it's not very reliable or good, which is why illnesses like dengue and malaria keep spreading.
- The article talks about the problems Pakistan faces in setting up a better surveillance system and suggests ways to improve healthcare for everyone.
Article Abstract
Infectious Disease Surveillance (IDS) in the community is essential to prevent, control, and detect outbreaks. A strong surveillance system is a need of time for low to middle-income countries like Pakistan where around half of the reported deaths are due to infections that can be easily prevented in the presence of a surveillance system. Although Pakistan has IDS which monitors and collects the data on several infectious diseases, the system is unreliable, inadequate, and substandard. As a result, dengue, tuberculosis, malaria, hepatitis B and C, and many other infectious diseases are still prevalent in Pakistan and unfortunately, the numbers are still rising. In this commentary, we have tried to highlight the problems the country is facing to establish a proper and self-sustainable surveillance system and have recommended some steps the relevant stakeholders should consider taking to make healthcare better in Pakistan.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9295525 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-022-00439-y | DOI Listing |
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