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3. **Healthcare Delivery Impact**:
- **Workforce and Resource Constraints**: The pandemic highlighted chronic workforce shortages and resource constraints, leading to extraordinary efforts to staff health services, including redeployment of staff, recalling retired doctors, and enabling medical students to join early[4].
- **Waiting Lists and Capacity**: The pandemic worsened existing capacity constraints and growing waiting lists, with significant disruptions in non-COVID care, including elective surgeries and diagnostics[4].