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A cross-sectional survey of COVID-19 preparedness in governmental hospitals of North-West Ethiopia

INTRODUCTION: The novel coronavirus was first reported in December 2019, from Wuhan, China, and it has been declared as a pandemic by World Health Organization on 7 January 2020, and from that time till now the disease transmitted across the world. Hospitals need to be prepared for the overwhelming...

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Autores principales: Tiruneh, Abebe, Yetneberk, Tikuneh, Eshetie, Denberu, Chekol, Bassazinew, Gellaw, Moges
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Publicado: SAGE Publications 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7878997/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33623703
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050312121993292
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author Tiruneh, Abebe
Yetneberk, Tikuneh
Eshetie, Denberu
Chekol, Bassazinew
Gellaw, Moges
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Yetneberk, Tikuneh
Eshetie, Denberu
Chekol, Bassazinew
Gellaw, Moges
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description INTRODUCTION: The novel coronavirus was first reported in December 2019, from Wuhan, China, and it has been declared as a pandemic by World Health Organization on 7 January 2020, and from that time till now the disease transmitted across the world. Hospitals need to be prepared for the overwhelming COVID-19 cases in their respective hospitals. OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to assess the level of hospital preparedness for COVID-19 in South Gondar Zone Governmental Hospitals, 2020. METHODS: The institutionally based survey was conducted in South Gondar Zone Hospitals from 20 July to 25 July 2020. We used the World Health Organization preparedness checklist for COVID-19, and the checklist has three options for eight hospitals (not started, in progress, and started), so each hospital evaluated out of 208 points (104 items × 2) to assess each hospital their preparedness based on the checklist. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, Version 21, is used for the analysis of the data. We used descriptive statistics and explained by using text and tables. RESULTS: We evaluated all eight hospitals in these zone hospitals and only one hospital was in an acceptable level of preparation (>146 points), three hospitals were in an insufficient level of preparation (73–145 points), and the other four hospitals were grouped under the unacceptable level of preparation (<72 points) for COVID-19. And in all hospitals, there was no laboratory diagnostic method and treatment center for the COVID-19 virus. CONCLUSION: From the level of COVID-19 pandemic preparation from eight hospitals, only one hospital reaches the level of an acceptable level of preparedness. Mobilizing the community and other stakeholders to equip the hospital with resources and prioritization is recommended to mitigate the impact of COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-78789972021-02-22 A cross-sectional survey of COVID-19 preparedness in governmental hospitals of North-West Ethiopia Tiruneh, Abebe Yetneberk, Tikuneh Eshetie, Denberu Chekol, Bassazinew Gellaw, Moges SAGE Open Med Original Research Article INTRODUCTION: The novel coronavirus was first reported in December 2019, from Wuhan, China, and it has been declared as a pandemic by World Health Organization on 7 January 2020, and from that time till now the disease transmitted across the world. Hospitals need to be prepared for the overwhelming COVID-19 cases in their respective hospitals. OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to assess the level of hospital preparedness for COVID-19 in South Gondar Zone Governmental Hospitals, 2020. METHODS: The institutionally based survey was conducted in South Gondar Zone Hospitals from 20 July to 25 July 2020. We used the World Health Organization preparedness checklist for COVID-19, and the checklist has three options for eight hospitals (not started, in progress, and started), so each hospital evaluated out of 208 points (104 items × 2) to assess each hospital their preparedness based on the checklist. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, Version 21, is used for the analysis of the data. We used descriptive statistics and explained by using text and tables. RESULTS: We evaluated all eight hospitals in these zone hospitals and only one hospital was in an acceptable level of preparation (>146 points), three hospitals were in an insufficient level of preparation (73–145 points), and the other four hospitals were grouped under the unacceptable level of preparation (<72 points) for COVID-19. And in all hospitals, there was no laboratory diagnostic method and treatment center for the COVID-19 virus. CONCLUSION: From the level of COVID-19 pandemic preparation from eight hospitals, only one hospital reaches the level of an acceptable level of preparedness. Mobilizing the community and other stakeholders to equip the hospital with resources and prioritization is recommended to mitigate the impact of COVID-19. SAGE Publications 2021-02-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7878997/ /pubmed/33623703 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050312121993292 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Tiruneh, Abebe
Yetneberk, Tikuneh
Eshetie, Denberu
Chekol, Bassazinew
Gellaw, Moges
A cross-sectional survey of COVID-19 preparedness in governmental hospitals of North-West Ethiopia
title A cross-sectional survey of COVID-19 preparedness in governmental hospitals of North-West Ethiopia
title_full A cross-sectional survey of COVID-19 preparedness in governmental hospitals of North-West Ethiopia
title_fullStr A cross-sectional survey of COVID-19 preparedness in governmental hospitals of North-West Ethiopia
title_full_unstemmed A cross-sectional survey of COVID-19 preparedness in governmental hospitals of North-West Ethiopia
title_short A cross-sectional survey of COVID-19 preparedness in governmental hospitals of North-West Ethiopia
title_sort cross-sectional survey of covid-19 preparedness in governmental hospitals of north-west ethiopia
topic Original Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7878997/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33623703
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050312121993292
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