Emergency Care Systems: The Missing Link for Effective Treatment of COVID-19 in Africa

Cases of COVID-19 are rising quickly on the African continent. A critical element of any health system response to such a surge of active cases is the existence of functional emergency care systems. Yet, these systems are markedly underdeveloped in African countries. This short letter reviews the ke...

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Autores principales: Calvello Hynes, Emilie J., Bills, Corey B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7450233/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32660671
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2020.239
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description Cases of COVID-19 are rising quickly on the African continent. A critical element of any health system response to such a surge of active cases is the existence of functional emergency care systems. Yet, these systems are markedly underdeveloped in African countries. This short letter reviews the key role emergency medicine plays in epidemic disease response and actions that ministries of health can take now to shore up gaps in emergency care capacity to avoid needless death and suffering of COVID-19 patients.
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spelling pubmed-74502332020-08-27 Emergency Care Systems: The Missing Link for Effective Treatment of COVID-19 in Africa Calvello Hynes, Emilie J. Bills, Corey B. Disaster Med Public Health Prep Letter to the Editor Cases of COVID-19 are rising quickly on the African continent. A critical element of any health system response to such a surge of active cases is the existence of functional emergency care systems. Yet, these systems are markedly underdeveloped in African countries. This short letter reviews the key role emergency medicine plays in epidemic disease response and actions that ministries of health can take now to shore up gaps in emergency care capacity to avoid needless death and suffering of COVID-19 patients. Cambridge University Press 2020-07-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7450233/ /pubmed/32660671 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2020.239 Text en © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2020 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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