New Virus pandemic English Assignment.

1) Who are the people involved in this scenario?

•   Get- Global Emegency Transport
•    Researchers of the WHO- World Health Organisation 
•    Researchers of  Switzerland who have came up with a prospective cure for the virus
•   Victims of the virus.
•   The flood responders

2) What are their roles?

• Get- Global Emegency Transport, an organisation that specializes in providing search and rescue, evacuation and relocation for victims during disasters. However, due to the outbreak of the new virus, GET had suspended flood search and rescue to serve as medivac transport for virus patients to emergency medical shelters. Sadly, several GET pilots had contracted the virus and were hospitalized as they were also suffering from the effects of the virus.
• Researchers of the WHO- World Health Organisation  are studying the virus, its spreading and causes, and to reduce the contraction rate of the virus by finding a vaccine or cure and to eventually stop the virus.
• Researchers in Switzerland who have came up with a prospective cure for the virus. This precious medication is called Xifan. They did not wish to release the Xifan as it had a samllstockpile.
• Victims of this virus had sufferd the most. They intially suffer from an array of flu-like such as cough, fever, shortness of breath, headaches, body aches and diarrhea. In two weeks, many would develop pneumonia and/or acute respiratory distress syndrome, which leads to difficulty inbreathing and can result in organ failure.
• Flood responders are the people who helped out after the flood. An estimated 22,000 worldwide volunteers  have responded for clean-up and recue of the affected areas and victims.

3)Identify the key problems.

• Flood responders and GET pilots are also becoming victims to the virus by helping the already infected victims and also by working in the virus affected areas.
• Poor sanitation, crowded shelters. minimal health care has resulted in the increase of spreading of the virus.
• Affected areas are facing shortages of health care amenities.
• The Swiss are hesitant  in releasing the the medication. The cure is most effective when taken within 48 hours of the first symptoms. However, the first few symptoms are similar to a common flu's. There is a samll supply of the medication too, thus they do not want to release the medication for use.

4) Possible solutions for each of the problems.

• To prevent more people from contracting the virus, the flood responders should be properly vaccinated once a vaccine has been created if they choose to continue helping.
• Man power is needed to construct proper temporary shelters and health care amenities, doctors and more flood responders to help combat the porblem of poor sanitation, overcrowding in shelters and minmal health care.
• More money can be invested in the research of a vaccine for the virus so that a vaccine may be created much faster to save more lives.

Group members...
Saurav Ghante
Phua Kia Yi

Thiviyan Paramasivem

Goutham Naidu

Ernest Heng