Policies and resources for strengthening of emergency and critical care services in the context of the global COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya.

ABSTRACT: Critical illnesses cause several million deaths annually, with many of these occurring in low-resource settings like Kenya. Great efforts have been made worldwide to scale up critical care to reduce deaths from COVID-19. Lower income countries with fragile health systems may not have had sufficient resources to upscale their critical care. We aimed to review how efforts to strengthen emergency and critical care were operationalised during the pandemic in Kenya to point towards how future emergencies should be approached. This was an exploratory study that involved document reviews, and discussions with key stakeholders (donors, international agencies, professional associations, government actors), during the first year of the pandemic in Kenya. Our findings suggest that pre-pandemic health

SUBMITTER: Oliwa JN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10317215 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature