2023-12-14 12:20:00
Belgium has mobilized significant human, financial and technical resources to minimize the impacts of the Covid-19 crisis. If certain measures have borne fruit, others might have been better, according to the report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) evaluating Belgium’s response to the pandemic, presented Thursday in Brussels by the OECD Secretary General Mathias Cormann.
In its report, the OECD recommends, for example, strengthening anticipation and preparation for emergency situations in Belgium in the event of a future crisis, in particular by building up larger stocks. She also advises increasing the resilience of the health system, but also giving priority to keeping schools open, making greater use of liquidity measures (such as state guarantees) which might reduce the budgetary burden, or to adjust the eligibility conditions for temporary unemployment.
After covid, Cocom continues to track viral diseases in Brussels, “last month, in Brussels, there were 20 cases of tuberculosis”
The OECD analysis helps understand which measures worked and which did not, for whom and why, four years following the start of the pandemic. Belgium is the second country to invite the OECD to evaluate its responses to Covid-19.
The report was presented in the presence of Prime Minister Alexander De Croo and Ministers of Health Frank Vandenbroucke and Minister of the Interior Annelies Verlinden.
1702571579
#Covid #OECD #recommendations #management #future #health #crises #Belgium
