Healthcare equipment and drug manufacturing key to stop pandemics

Countries’ infrastructure played the biggest role during this pandemic. When the virus struck different countries, they were faced with new and strange challenges (which they had never handled before) and thus could not have a proper initial response. However, not long after, they started to get adapted to the new situation, and this adaptation was faster among countries with strong social, economic, and health infrastructures. To handle a health crisis, firstly, a strong health system is needed. In the initial stages of a pandemic, handling the situation mostly depends on the health system's capacity (handling the maximum number of patients in the least amount of time), but as time goes by the system will need strengthening and support. Governments must provide this support in the forms of medical supplies (like PPE, test kits, ventilators, medicine, etc.), financial aids, resource allocations, etc. (15, 42). In a pandemic, the essential assets are medical drugs and supplies. Without drugs, there can be no hope of curing the patients or easing their pain; without medical supplements, healthcare workers are at risk, and care delivery will not be safe and sufficient. During this pandemic, we saw how governments struggled to supply their healthcare systems with proper equipment. Demands for drugs grew steadily (especially the ones that were considered effective against the virus). If a country had no technology to manufacture the medications, it had to spend a large number of its resources on purchasing and importing drugs from other countries (provided that it could spare the amount requested). This could potentially lead to an inflation of service costs, and low-income families could no longer afford to pay, and thus they might be held back from demanding and utilizing services even though they need them