Overcoming the Covid-19 disruption to essential health services

Countries need to reassess their delivery strategies and make targeted investments.

Health-care delivery in nearly every country has been disrupted by policymakers’ mistaken initial assumption that health systems would quickly win the fight against Covid-19. As the pandemic’s caseload and death toll are increasing daily, it is often stalling or reversing hard-won progress on minimising the impact of other diseases, from diabetes to malaria.