It was the mantra, as The Danish quality model in the health service was launched in 2002, and if so, have the words survived to today.
More than once we have heard Søren Brostrøm, Kåre Mølbak, Magnus Heunicke and the other, who has been the health care system faces in the current corona-crisis, put forward the variants of the phrase. And with good reason.
In retrospect, anyone can wise up, but no one could foresee that the meeting between (probably) a bat and-what-am-I in a chinese food mart before the new year, a quarter later to put the whole world in the stand.
But we know one thing: Although history never repeats itself in exactly the same way, then repeats it, however: Covid-19-the pandemic is not the last pandemic the world has seen. And the world has become smaller.
In the 1300s, it took the plague 16 years to spread from China to Europe – and a further three years before it reached Denmark.
For well over 100 years ago scattered the Spanish flu in the course of some months. Covid-19 train trip in a few weeks. It’s not going to go slower next time, unless we learn from our mistakes.
‘We’ in this context is a broad concept. It began with a closed and totalitarian chinese society, as unprecedented long covered over a virus in Wuhan, which had the potential to spread all over the world.
It ended up in Denmark, which let skiglade – and perhaps not least the après ski happy – danes return home from Ischgl without either test or quarantine. Which way the next pandemic takes, we know not. But we know that it will come.
And the next time we need – both in Denmark, Europe and the world – be better prepared. Of course, it is trite, but it does not come by itself.
When Denmark is open again, there should be reduced a corona-commission. The EU and the WHO should do the same, but we can start with ourselves. There is a need for a brutally honest experiences, which reveals the weaknesses in the international coordination and communication, the corresponding gaps in Denmark and bristerne in our preparedness.
And no, I’m not suggesting a traditional commission, there are looking for hair in the soup. It is the matter of serious to the, and incidentally, we have bad experience with to burn millions of the account. Farum-the commission cost nearly 60 million. dollars, and when it finally was done, Peter Brixtofte long since released from prison, and legislation tightened up. It was, frankly, a waste of money.
But it goes reverse not with a COWI-report or similar. We need to know more than a consultancy report can uncover.
What happened exactly between the meeting of the government security committee of the 27. February, as some of the participants themselves have been busy with to leak from, to the prime minister’s wise and consistent decommissioning of Denmark 11. march, where the world health Organization called the covid-19 as a pandemic.
Long before had the now deceased chinese doctor Li Wenliang, which, according to the chinese state apparatus was a victim of the disease, warned against the disease. How total the WHO it up? How came the Danish authorities up on it?
We need to know everything in order to become wiser. Therefore, a corona-commission have the same tools as for a regular commission survey: free access to all documents and the questioning of all involved.
And I repeat: I’m not out in an errand, where to burn millions on a witch hunt. In fact it has been shameful to experience the frictions between officials and ministers of the open screen.
Free os for a system in which officials are going to paint the devil on the wall, each time they give a professional recommendation, in order to be sure not to be hung out to dry afterwards.
We need a precise mapping of the sequence of events that can be translated into concrete recommendations as to how we equip both the Danish and international preparedness for the next time. Let us spend time and effort on it, rather than to threaten with dummebøder to those who are just now struggling day and night to do the best they can.
Many danes welcomes just now over the broad political cooperation. With good reason, so skuf them not. Reduce a corona-commission, when Denmark has opened up again. Not to hang any up on the errors, but because the biggest mistake is not to learn from them, that could have been avoided.
