Conflicts, Covid-19, and Climate Change: Challenges to Public Health in the Wake of Humanitarian Crises

Alumnus, Faculty of Pharmacy, Dhaka University, Bangladesh

*Corresponding author: Abdul Kader Mohiuddin Alumnus, Faculty of Pharmacy, Dhaka University, Bangladesh; Tel: +01706221174; Email: [email protected]

Received Date: March 9, 2023

Publication Date: March 28, 2023

Citation: Mohiuddin AK. (2023). Conflicts, Covid-19, and Climate Change: Challenges to Public Health in the Wake of Humanitarian Crises. Medical Research. 2(1):8.

Copyright: Mohiuddin AK, et al. © (2023).

ABSTRACT

Currently, humanity is facing a serious crisis. The worldwide economic contraction, the acute fall in financial asset values, the collapse in imports and exports, the contractions of industrial output, the increase in inflation, the shrinking of wages, the rise in unemployed people, and the wreckage of social security caused by numerous natural catastrophes, the human displacement due to epidemics, and ongoing rivalries tear down not only the economic sector but likewise the health sector. More than two years into the pandemic, the deadly interactions between conflicts, climate change, and COVID-19 have wreaked havoc on the food security of the most vulnerable people in the world by destroying livelihoods and raising food prices, endangering millions of people with hunger and poverty. Huge increases in food and fuel prices, as well as inflation, are all caused by conflict, the climate crisis, and COVID-19. As a result, many people are unable to afford health care.

Keywords: humanitarian crisis, shortage of medicine and medical equipment, damage to health facilities, epidemics among the refugee population