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The army was involved at times in logistics, construction of emergency infrastructure,
transport, patient monitoring, hospital services (cooking and cleaning), vaccine logistics
(storage and transport), etc. In two years, the army intervened three times, for a total of
380,000 days of service, which corresponds to about 150 million Swiss francs.

Many questions remain open. Firstly, it was not possible to extract reliable estimates of
the costs incurred by patients.

Therefore, they are not mentioned in the above summary. Secondly, while inpatient
treatment is (relatively) easy to quantify, it is more difficult to link outpatient treatment
(e.g. consulting a doctor) to COVID-19 than to any other purpose.
Third, the report insists that its scope is limited to the "direct" costs of the pandemic, and
goes on to state that this includes the cost of "medical treatment for COVID-19-related
illness". Thus, it appears that the cost of treatment for illnesses caused by vaccination
has not been taken into account (or simply not controlled).

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Christian Pauletto is a member of the Board of Directors and a lecturer on Swiss
political institutions at the Université Populaire du Canton de Genève.

Translated with DeepL

100 REFLECTIONS THAT CRAFTED

GENEVA INTERNATIONAL

By Odette FOUDRAL

Evelina Rioukhina, our new coopted member of
the Committee, is also a writer who frequently
1/
publishes articles in the publication DIVA .
She also published several articles in the UN
SPECIAL magazine and in UN TODAY.

She is really interested in the place of the UN
within the city of Geneva but mainly involved in
the role of the UN in a changing world. She
could access the personal archives of M. Vladimir Petrovsky .
2/
Evelina has the open-minded approach which should be an example not only for staff
but also for all of us.

You will be informed when the book “100 Reflections that Crafted
Geneva International” will be available. Do not miss it, it is a jewel….

You will have the pleasure to read articles in our next Bulletins.

1/ https://divainternational.ch/-previous-issues-.html
2/ UN Geneva Director General 1993-2002

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