Deconstructing the Problematic Roles of Pakistani Media During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Managementof Coronavirusin Pakistan

“…A careful, coherent, and comprehensive plan to deal with both ordinary and extraordinary situations, i.e., disasters, health emergencies, outbreaks, and pandemics, is needed with urgency as a fundamental requirement of good governance; the absence of which would expose governmental incompetence in adopting better, actionable, and concrete procedures for public health and developing extensive healthcare planning. And to make it happen, "priorities for disease control and precautions must be set in advance" (Khan M. R., 2021).…”

“…course of action amid growing fears; on the other, they make utmost efforts to bust misinformation. So, it is the government's responsibility that "monitoring of social media, essentially to debunk fake, distorted, partially true, and propaganda posts are conducted regularly" as "access to verified sources, free of disinformation and malcontent, is the right" of the citizenry (Khan M. R., 2021).…”

“…Still carrying its destructive impacts to new heights, the COVID-19 pandemic has increased the vulnerability of all healthcare domains and compromised the safety of healthcare professionals and associates. The responsibility comes to the shoulders of respective governments to ensure that these braveindividualsworking for better health are employedinsecureand protected environments (Khalid & Ali, 2020).Pandemics reflect a "community-level ignorance" (Khan M. R., 2021), uncovering the fundamental importance of better health measures adopted for community safety, keeping the healthcare governance coherent and at pace, and having endemics controlled and keeping from becoming outbreaks or pandemics. COVID-19 has challenged global human health and politics, inadvertently challenging the governance and healthcare management systems (Khan M. R., 2021).In Pakistan, the governmental healthcare system has never been up to the standards that could make people feel safe.The reason lies in the emergency healthcare policy, which is seldom found atthe national level.…”