Dwindling the Magnitude of COVID-19 Pandemic in Pakistan through Change Model Approach by Kurtin Lewin

Abstract. The CoVID-19 pandemic is an emerging global health crisis, inciting fears and panic in developing and developed nations, affecting almost 219 countries around the globe. The cases of deadly pneumonia in Pakistan have been swelling at a rapid pace, imposing a devastating impact on the social, financial as well as health care system of the country, thus leading to high morbidity and mortality rate. Adaptation of "new normal" is vital to enhance endurance and resilience to live life in a challenging situation where millions of people lost their loved ones against deadly CoVID-19 infection. The change model approach introduced by Kurtin Lewin assists in forcing change among the human system through the three-step process; unfreeze, freeze, and Re-freeze. In the wake of CoVID-19 situation, this change approach in Pakistan helps to raise awareness about the seriousness of the disease among people while also offer education about the essential methodology for the prevention of fatal infection.

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an emerging contagious respiratory illness, which has afflicted almost 219 countries across the world. On 1 November 2020, approximately 45678440 million infected cases of Coronavirus were confirmed, out of which 1189945 people perished due to the lethal virus (WHO, 2020). On 30 January 2020, World health organization has proclaimed a Coronavirus outbreak as sixth public health emergency after observing the rapid dissemination of deadly virus across the world, which was first emerged in Wuhan city of China in late December 2019 and has transmuted into a global pandemic within a glimpse of time (Zhu et al., 2020). The unprecedented COVID-19 Pandemic has posed a formidable challenge on the national level and a massive burden on the healthcare system of developed and developing countries. The wave of contagious infection has brought streams of morbidity and mortality across the world, where Pakistan stands among the top 15 countries with a massive burden of the disease. On February 26, 2020, Pakistan detected the first two cases of COVID -19 in Karachi and Islamabad. Since then, even with scarce financial and material resources, Pakistan has been grappling hard to contain the local spread of the virus, by implementing different stringent measures (Sultana et al., 2020). These measures include the development of COVID-19 hospitals and quarantine facilities to facilitate infected people and imposing lockdown to flatten the curve of COVID-19 infections (Saqlain et al., 2020). Although the above listed rigorous measures, the national tally of infections has been rising at a rapid pace with the confirmed cases of 332993, has been reported 0n 1 November in the country, inflicting a massive challenge to the already crumbling healthcare system of Pakistan (WHO, 2020).