3. Healthcare Setup Lack of infrastructure Lack of trained personnel Limited drugs Illiteracy Panic/Ignorance Unaffordability Pandemic Problems Population
4. Improper precautionary measures Undue worry about similar mild illnesses Faith in the local pharmacist/medicine man Illiteracy and Ignorance
5. Availability of the appropriate drug Mass production and whether it is needed OTC – to sell or not to sell Resistance due to rampant use Side effect management Hoarding The Drug Issue
6. WHO – “ A ‘whole-of-society’ approach ” Information Therapy to the Rescue!
7. Using Information Therapy - I Appropriate and adequate preventive measures Identification of disease symptoms and hence the need to self quarantine Conservative treatment at home Medical attention for the high risk/serious candidates
8. Panic Control Disease mortality and morbidity statistics and balanced media coverage Legislations with satisfactory explanations Circumventing the infrastructural lacunae Using Information Therapy - II
9. Inter Pandemic Period Continued awareness efforts for the masses Confidence building measures alongside infrastructure development Make health care professionals ‘Pan-literate’ Final Hope