The Secretary General of the United Nations expressed disappointment that the world leaders have not been able to come together to face and fight the COVID-19. He regretted that the great powers are not giving leadership and that is the reason why the virus is spreading world over.
All sensible people will react in the same way that combined efforts are imperative for containing this devastating pandemic when it is not only destroying human lives but also the world economy.
No country alone can be successful in defeating the pandemic that is creating disaster worldwide. Surely the big powers are not so dim as not to understand.
Such a leadership should have come from the United States for the resources and in the earlier days it always had played its world leadership position for the greater good of all.
But under President Donald Trump, a great divider of world unity and for his America first policy — the United States is no longer in that unique position for unique leadership, although such leadership is urgently needed.
Some time back we in our newspaper thought of the European Union for coming forward to lead forming a united leadership against the disaster of the worldwide pandemic. We see no move from them perhaps they all have become too used to American leadership not to think differently.
Our question is, as the Secretary General of the UN why should he not take initiative to fill in the void of leadership and bring them together when the humanity is crying for help. He can meet the big power leaders and try to hold a joint meeting of them.
As the UN Secretary General he should feel an obligation to try. Only he is in a highly neutral position to talk on behalf of the nations of the world. Resource-starving countries of the world are helpless victims of the pandemic never visited us before.
But the worldwide cooperation would certainly have created it much easier to confront the virus together and save many lives of the medical scientists, who are hopefully working together for inventing a vaccine. Simply by improving the medical facilities quite a big number of lives can be saved.
For poor countries it is not possible to arrange such medical equipment as fast as these are needed. Many lives are lost just for absence of such medical preparations.
If world leadership for working together globally is available then such medical preparations would have not have been so difficult. This has to be admitted that there is leadership crisis also in many countries of Asia and Africa.
In many countries, including Bangladesh, there is lack of understanding that unless hospital beds for treatment are ready mere testing for the virus will not have big impact in reducing contamination. There is another big problem in many third world countries. Failed governments have well oiled machinery to tell lies.
A government official of Bangladesh had no difficulty to claim that there are twenty thousand beds ready for corona virus patients. One will be surprised if four thousands beds are available equipped with intensive care facilities necessary for corona affected patients.
Finding the government hospitals’ situation pitiable, few rich people are trying to make some special arrangements. That is no credit for the government.
The people found positive in tests will have to be isolated for treatment. In this regard our preparations are apathetically insufficient. Suppression of facts and mismanagement is understandable. There is too much emphasis on lockdown without meeting the needs of supplying the necessities of life to the people staying locked at homes.
The people though, helpless and frustrated, are still hoping for world help knowing they cannot alone help themselves.
All sensible people will react in the same way that combined efforts are imperative for containing this devastating pandemic when it is not only destroying human lives but also the world economy.
No country alone can be successful in defeating the pandemic that is creating disaster worldwide. Surely the big powers are not so dim as not to understand.
Such a leadership should have come from the United States for the resources and in the earlier days it always had played its world leadership position for the greater good of all.
But under President Donald Trump, a great divider of world unity and for his America first policy — the United States is no longer in that unique position for unique leadership, although such leadership is urgently needed.
Some time back we in our newspaper thought of the European Union for coming forward to lead forming a united leadership against the disaster of the worldwide pandemic. We see no move from them perhaps they all have become too used to American leadership not to think differently.
Our question is, as the Secretary General of the UN why should he not take initiative to fill in the void of leadership and bring them together when the humanity is crying for help. He can meet the big power leaders and try to hold a joint meeting of them.
As the UN Secretary General he should feel an obligation to try. Only he is in a highly neutral position to talk on behalf of the nations of the world. Resource-starving countries of the world are helpless victims of the pandemic never visited us before.
But the worldwide cooperation would certainly have created it much easier to confront the virus together and save many lives of the medical scientists, who are hopefully working together for inventing a vaccine. Simply by improving the medical facilities quite a big number of lives can be saved.
For poor countries it is not possible to arrange such medical equipment as fast as these are needed. Many lives are lost just for absence of such medical preparations.
If world leadership for working together globally is available then such medical preparations would have not have been so difficult. This has to be admitted that there is leadership crisis also in many countries of Asia and Africa.
In many countries, including Bangladesh, there is lack of understanding that unless hospital beds for treatment are ready mere testing for the virus will not have big impact in reducing contamination. There is another big problem in many third world countries. Failed governments have well oiled machinery to tell lies.
A government official of Bangladesh had no difficulty to claim that there are twenty thousand beds ready for corona virus patients. One will be surprised if four thousands beds are available equipped with intensive care facilities necessary for corona affected patients.
Finding the government hospitals’ situation pitiable, few rich people are trying to make some special arrangements. That is no credit for the government.
The people found positive in tests will have to be isolated for treatment. In this regard our preparations are apathetically insufficient. Suppression of facts and mismanagement is understandable. There is too much emphasis on lockdown without meeting the needs of supplying the necessities of life to the people staying locked at homes.
The people though, helpless and frustrated, are still hoping for world help knowing they cannot alone help themselves.
