Table 2.

Analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of the health system

	Helpful	Harmful
Internal origin	S	W
	Motivated and young employees to deal with the crisis	Lack of rapid response teams
		Improper management of supply, distribution, and consumption
	Successful experience of managing gatherings and mass movements	Lack of comprehensive use of the capacity of private medical centers and ambulances
	Strengthening and gradually improving the performance of the health system	Inconsistency in management decisions or making momentary decisions of center managers
	Essential medical infrastructure and resources	Lack of preplanned protocols for managing employees in the health system
	Regular health system management meetings to combat corona traffic management and thermal screening
	Locating, forecasting, and equipping medical and nonmedical infrastructures outside the corona center
	Complete evacuation of the educational and medical hospital and its selection as the main center of corona
External origin	O	T
	Setting up factories for the production of personal protective equipment at the national and local levels	General panic of the disease
		The displacement of people and the risk of spreading the disease
	Using the capacity of health donors and health professionals in disasters	Extensive involvement of health system personnel and the challenge of closing medical centers or the challenge of replacing personnel
	Upgrading equipment technology
	Education and research	Unknown course of the disease
		Lack of accurate tracking of definite and suspected patients or late updating of patient information
		Decreasing the purchasing power of people due to lack of equipment or increasing the price of personal protective equipment and disinfectants
		Fatigue and decreased motivation of health system employees
		Significant decline in revenues of hospitals and medical centers
		Social stigma of disease
		Disruption of the normal course of the grief reaction

S=Strengths, W=Weaknesses, O=Opportunities, T=Threats