UK Deploys Medical Team to Tunisia

Much has been reported regarding the success of the vaccine rollout in the UK, but there have also been criticisms levelled at all countries in the developed world regarding the relatively small number of vaccines being distributed among poorer nations.

The UK government has recently dispatched a team of doctors, nurses, and logistics experts to the African country of Tunisia to assist with managing the COVID-19 crisis in that part of the world.

The team is made up of nine people from the UK, France, Italy, and The Democratic Republic of Congo and was dispatched after a request from the Tunisian government. Tunisia was already in the midst of a devastating financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic has only served to exacerbate the hardships already being suffered.

“COVID-19 has delivered major blows to the Tunisian health system and economy, with the number of daily cases of real concern,” said UK Minister for the Middle East and North Africa, James Cleverly. “This deployment of a UK Emergency Medical Team will provide British expertise to Tunisian health care professionals, helping them to tackle the health crisis and saving lives.”

Pharmaceutical logistics and the pandemic are global concerns, and we need to come together as one people to effectively fight it. No one is safe until everyone is safe, so the saying goes, and we must take responsibility for each other if we’re going to finally see the back of this disease.