For more than two decades, everyone has relied almost exclusively on China for all of its healthcare needs, given the Asian giant’s production capabilities, cargo merit and reliability, all of which resulted in a well-stocked global chain scenario.
With pioneering generation corporations in Europe and the United States that moved all of its production facilities to China in search of profitability, China had something smart going on for a long time. Aware of how lucrative it is to be the world’s leading production base, China has also made particular strised in its production capabilities, quality and more, making it impossible to resist the global healthcare procurement industry through $105 billion.
When the COVID-19 pandemic first erupted in Wuhan this year, hell broke out in the global fitness care formula when the Chinese government shut down all production facilities across the country to mitigate the spread of deadly disease.
Then, with the rise of COVID-19 cases in dozens of countries requiring the urgent delivery of important health care materials, adding medical and disposable consumables, bulk medicines and others, care has focused only on China to deliver goods, governments fighting others, and even poaching. is scaring the medical materials of the few Chinese corporations that still had shares for sale.
In the blink of an eye, the pandemic exposed medical decision makers to how dependent China is the formula of the global source of fitness care, even when media headlines about the world’s claimed shortage of face masks, PPE (personal protective equipment) for the front. penicillin, antibiotics, painkillers and other bulk medicines.
And the alarm bells continued to ring for months, while the production base remained locked, without a new production of essential fitness care materials entering the global supply chain as it had for years.
As unrest at source and demand for medical materials persisted, and China remained largely blocked, policymakers in forward-looking countries, in addition to the United Arab Emirates, introduced and intensified the ability to manufacture their own fitness care materials without knowing how long China would take. will not be able to meet your massive needs.
It soon became transparent to countries that needed to be self-sufficient with their physical care source systems, and may no longer rely solely on China to fulfill their long-term disaster or pandemic wishes.
While considerations such as economies of scale are increasing, a small number of countries, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, are emerging as the leading providers of physical care product production options to meet global demand.
In the past, Indonesia and Malaysia operated limited production facilities for fitness care supplies, but with the advent of COVID-19, they took a step forward in production, with medical consumables and waste.
At one point, there was an international shortage of medical fanatics, most of whom occurred in China. But then countries like Germany increased their own fan production when the materials dried up at the height of the pandemic.
As has been the case in improving its food security, it should be noted that the United Arab Emirates has also expressed interest and is already advancing the production capacity of its own physique care supplies, and Abu Dhabi now generates high-quality face masks. . The country also has great potential to attract giant pharmaceutical companies, as well as the production of medical and disposable consumables.
In this context, Ras Al Khaimah will also make the emirate a major production center for giant pharmaceutical companies, medical devices and consumables.
If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us anything, it’s to rely on a country on any component of the world for medical supplies. Search and establish production services of choice spread around the world and also want to be self-sufficient as much as possible.
In this sense, global names like Siemens, which have committed health care production services in China, want to reconsider their methods for unprecedented source chain closures.
At the end of the day, China cannot be removed from the stage as a whole, as it will remain the largest manufacturer thanks to the economies of scale it offers.
But yes, the pandemic has put the global aptitude source formula under the microscope, with several vital conclusions requiring rapid action before a new unprecedented fusion of the global source chain develops.
– Dr. Raza Siddiqui is Executive Director of RAK Hospital.
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