You probably remember not Ulf Bech Christensen, but it’s the man who cried all the health up to eight days ago.
Bech Christiansen, the company has Pentabase on the island of Funen, and he tried for a long time to get in touch with the authorities. He could deliver coronavirustest in his laboratory, and thus help one of the places where the Danish strategy limped.
He approached with his idea the 12. march, but got no response. In frustration he wrote a posting on Facebook, and so it went fast. 22. march, he was in all the Danish media. The day after the lamented health minister Magnus Heuniche on the health authorities ‘ behalf, and now is Pentabase with in the fight against corona.
the Case shows that there is a kæmpepotentiale in cooperation between the public and the private sector. Much went wrong in this case. The health authorities had a blind spot and reacted not at all on the obvious comments. But in the first place was an outright strategy for cooperation between the public and private companies in a crisis situation. It seems as if there is lack of an overview of what private companies, which in the present situation could help, and therefore lost the time and effect.
today, health authorities have acknowledged that it was a mistake not to test more in Denmark, but we lacked at the time the necessary equipment, as Pentabase able to deliver.
Ulf Bech Christiansen’s case is so grotesque, that all could easily see the problem, and today, a website of the Danish medicines agency: ‘Denmark will assist Denmark’. It is popular, and more than 1000 companies have signed up under the tabs.
It is, of course, not all approaches can be used. But the weekend began, the Novo Nordisk to test, so the capital region today can test more than 2500 patients a day. It was not possible without novo’s cooperation.
the Company O2matic from Herlev, denmark, has initiated a collaboration, where their iltrobot can help coronapatienter with the proper oxygen supply. Previously, the dosage done manually by the nurses, but now is doing robot work, then the nurse’s hands are freed for other work, and where the risk of contagion is significantly reduced.
There are many companies that help to. Danish distillers ltd, for example, has added håndsprit to their production of vodka, and how can you be at.
of course, It is easier to establish cooperation, when there is a clearly defined emergency situation, but it will be a big sin of omission, if not the public managers realize that the business has solutions.
When we are on the other side of the corona, much will look different, but the big tasks are waiting.
One of the crucial will be to reform the public, which today is the world’s largest. Cooperation with private enterprises can be the key to making it more innovative and efficient.
Yes, you read that right. We must make the public more efficiently and at the same time, lift the quality. It is quite simply the bottom task of the government, of which all are aware, the bill for the current preparedness milliardstor.
Coronakrisen have given two positive directions.
the Increased use of volunteers. There are right now more than 30,000 who have volunteered. Why should more of them do not give a hand with, when we again have a normal society.
The other direction and with the biggest perspective is a broader private-public cooperation. It applies to all branches of the public from babysitting to elderly care, from miljøbekæmpelse to the reception centers. There is already a degree of cooperation, but only 20 percent of the public involves private actors.
however, This requires that the government and støttepartierne forget the ideological ride, that must not be earned money on welfare. It is quite no matter if the quality gets better.
Let the private companies come to. It will be the best business support, when society should be helped back on their feet again. And it will lift the quality of our welfare society.
This is pure win-win.
Michael Dyrby Editor-in-chief, B. T.
Michael Dyrby is editor-in-chief of B. T. He is a former nyhedsdirektør on the TV 2
