Malawi’s Second Wave: What Lessons from 2020 Can be Applied in 2021?
As a second wave inundates Malawi, public health officials and policymakers are asking, What lessons from Malawi’s mild 2020 experience should be applied in 2021?
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As a second wave inundates Malawi, public health officials and policymakers are asking, What lessons from Malawi’s mild 2020 experience should be applied in 2021?
“The Society of Medical Doctors has called for volunteer health workers to support the frontline health care staff during this unprecedented coronavirus pandemic. The doctors made the call in a statement barely a day after President Lazarus Chakwera admitted that the country’s health system had been ‘overwhelmed’ by the surge.”
“Senegal is rushing to provide more hospital beds for coronavirus patients as infections soar and a lack of capacity means doctors are only able to admit the most severe cases, health officials said.”
“Midwives running Sally Mugabe Hospital’s maternity ward have withdrawn their services over lack of COVID-19 Personal Protective Equipment. The health workers have also blamed health minister and Vice President Constantino Chiwenga for alleged failure to listen to their concerns.”
Kenyan health workers are pushing the government to honor agreements made in December, but negotiations have exposed fault lines between county and national officials. John Mbati reports from Nairobi.
“The doctors will join nurses and other healthcare workers who went on strike last Monday over similar demands, ignoring warnings from government officials that public hospital workers taking part of the protest will be sacked.”
“The latest data came as healthcare staff at public hospitals in Kenya continued their strike in protest against a lack of both protective gear and health insurance as many of them have died after contracting COVID-19.”
“As active COVID-19 cases keep rising in the Eastern Cape, unions are also deeply concerned with the growing number of infections among frontline workers.”
“Over nine months into COVID-19 outbreak in Nigeria, there are concerns about how well the country has managed the pandemic. The Conversation Africa asked Dr Doyin Odubanjo, executive secretary of the Nigerian Academy of Science, to assess the situation and how it might affect the country’s ability to manage other equally important diseases.”
“Sixty-one staff including doctors, nurses and clerks have tested positive for COVID-19 at two hospitals in Durban in the past two weeks. The hospitals have not been shut down and are ‘accepting walk-in patients.”