Suppose you are nursing head in the district hospital in Ramechhap district. And the district has approximately 50, 000 COVID-19 cases and 550 deaths. Your major goal is to reduce these numbers and promote the preventive measures of the COVID-19. This year the district has the budget of 5 crores, only for this purpose. However, the area does not have the testing facility and need to refer the samples to another district. Now, please answer the following question.

a) How will you distribute the budget, what will be your major area of focus and give your reason on why you focused on that particular area?

b) What would you do with the cost of the testing (if other variables are constant) for increasing the diagnosis of the cases? Why would you like to do so?

c) What are other factors that you would like to introduce as the nursing incharge in the area so that the number of the cases and the mortality is reduces?