Critical analysis of non-COVID-19 healthcare management in Bangladesh during the pandemic

Abstract

The corona virus pandemic had a severe impact worldwide. Specially the medical infrastructures got badly affected. Many developed countries faced severe interruption in their healthcare management and suffered a high death toll due to the pandemic. Developing countries like Bangladesh who has poor healthcare management with a weak infrastructure and lack of health care providers had to suffer a lot. The disease burden of non- communicable disease during this pandemic has also emerged as one of the significant public health problems. Despite the low fatality rate in Bangladesh people with co-morbidities were living in fear as the people with co-morbidities and age above 60 years are the most vulnerable. With this backdrop using secondary resources, this paper analyzed the healthcare system in non-COVID-19disease management in Bangladesh during the pandemic. Analysis shows due to lack of preparedness besides managing the pandemic related challenges Bangladesh faced huge challenges in managing issues related to maternal and mental health related issues.  Failure to manage non-communicable diseases properly made the overall health management more vulnerable. By taking proper policy and guideline to manage such challenges in future Bangladesh can be well equipped to face such unavoidable situation in future.