Pakistani doctors need PPE to fight COVID-19; Prime Minister Imran Khan puts paper tigers to work

Pakistan has what the rest of the world does not have. But don’t think too much: it’s not something Pakistan has. The Imran Khan government is simply using them to sell itself as a caretaker in these uncertain times. They are tigers faded away in real life but living in Pakistani imagination.

The government has established a Crown Tiger Rescue Force, which currently has over 8,000,000 registered members whether it’s real tigers or paper, we have to wait and see. But these volunteers include students, social workers, doctors, teachers, lawyers, journalists, and even retired military personnel, according to official details.

Perhaps the Pakistanis, more serious bodies dealing with the country’s Cornavin crisis, such as the National Security Committee, the National Coordinating Committee, the National Command, and the Operations Center, were not up to par. It seems that the Corona Relief Force was exactly what the doctor prescribed.

PM love tigers

The soon activated the force was first announced by Prime Minister Imran Khan last month in his strategy to fight the coronavirus: the Crown Fund and the Tiger Force. Funding for overseas Pakistanis is the cornerstone of Imran Khan’s strategy to solve the problem of his philanthropic or political life. Tigers are mandated to first identify people in need, they will find out who is unemployed, then go door-to-door and distribute rations, and spread awareness of security measures.

Tigers are the essential metaphor of PMImran Khan since always without counting the tigers photographed in his room or his pet dog named Tiger. In 1993, during the charitable campaign for the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Center, the Imran’s Tiger badges were given as a sign of appreciation to schoolchildren who collected substantial donations. These yellow badges were worn with pride by children who now officially considered themselves Imrans tigers. reworked to become Shaukat Khanum Tigers Club to recognize the charitable work done by children and youth to achieve the goals of the Cancer Hospital.

Fighting coronavirus with paper tigers

Fast forward to 2020 and Imran Khan is now recruiting tigers to do jihad against the coronavirus. However, neither the Tigers are no longer benign, nor the pandemic, against which they are confronted.

Divisive in nature, the rescue force tends to give a clear signal: if you are a supporter of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), you are invited to become a tiger and to wear an alleged T-shirt in the colors of the party flag of green, red and white. But who will dare to break it to Imran Khan that he is now the member for Pakistan and not for Shaukat Khanum or Tehreek-e-Insaf?

And if you thought that the Imran Khan government was able to use the funds of the relief force for something good, think again: we fear that the money will be spent on the manufacture of t-shirts for volunteers, fears that the government denies. People on social media have rightly qualified the recruitment, training, and deployment of Tigers waste of money, which could have been used instead to buy protective equipment for doctors.

Doctors and paramedics from Pakistan were demanding personal protective equipment (PPE) and other facilities to help care for patients. But what has Imran Khan’s government done? In Quetta, Baluchistan, doctors demanding protective equipment have been loaded with a baton and more than 50 of them were later stopped. Elsewhere, doctors demonstrated by carrying garbage or plastic bags to highlight the lack of gloves and masks.

As countries around the world focus on strengthening the health care system and helping their doctors as the first line of defense against the coronation virus, Pakistan empowers the Paper Tigers. It is by floating political ideas such as these that the PTI government makes people accuse it of not being serious, that is to say when they do not emphasize its bad preparation to deal with the pandemic.

Put young people in danger

The work that the government plans to do through the Corona Relief Tiger Force is something that local grassroots organizations are equipped to do. There are several governmental, non-governmental and religious organizations with millions of volunteers distributing rations, which the PTI believes the Tigers should do. To justify it by saying that Pakistan has a large population of young people who want to help fight the coronavirus or by whom they have made huge relief during floods and earthquakes and so that they can do it in this case, it is beyond stupidity. On the one hand, the nature of the pandemic is different from a natural disaster. Young people without adequate training and protection are at risk of becoming infected and the number of positive cases of COVID-19 will continue to increase. But does this government even think? Is it a good idea that the PTI government forgets to be followed like this in the middle of a pandemic? The answer is clear. PMImran Khan sees coronavirus as an opportunity for members of his party, to whom he said that by engaging in acts of charity and well-being, they need only show that they can have an advantage over their political opponents. Members, in turn, should expect a personalized Tiger badge if they are doing well during the coronavirus.

Sebastian

Sebastian was born and raised in the busy city of Abbottabad. As a journalist, Saad Mushtaq has contributed to many online publications including the PAK Today and the Huffing Post. In regards to academics, Saad Mushtaq earned a degree in business from the Abbottabad UST, Havelian. Saad Mushtaq follows the money and covers all aspects of emerging tech here at The Hear Up.Thanks