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The WHO COVID-19 Essential Supplies Forecasting Tool (ESFT) assists governments, partners, and other stakeholders to forecast the necessary volume of personal protective equipment, diagnostic equipment, consumable medical supplies, biomedical equipment for case management, and essential drugs for su...
Background paper 7
The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response
May 2021
This collection of posters are intended for health care workers, biomedical engineers and staff of health facilities in charge of caring, cleaning, decontaminating and sterilizing respiratory medical equipment in hospitals and health facilities. They include checklists to ensure the optimal infectio...
This collection of posters are intended for health care workers, biomedical engineers and staff of health facilities in charge of caring, cleaning, decontaminating and sterilizing respiratory medical equipment in hospitals and health facilities. They include checklists to ensure the optimal infectio...
This collection of posters are intended for health care workers, biomedical engineers and staff of health facilities in charge of caring, cleaning, decontaminating and sterilizing respiratory medical equipment in hospitals and health facilities. They include checklists to ensure the optimal infectio...
30 April 2020
| COVID-19: Essential health services
Objetivos
• Los dispositivos médicos enumerados en este documento proporcionan estándares mínimos y descripciones técnicas y especificaciones de dispositivos médicos para el tratamiento de soporte de COVID-19.§ • Estos dispositivos médicos no son limitados y son adaptables a todos los p...
Using the WHO model list of essential medicines to update a national essential medicines list
Since 1977, WHO has been working with countries to design the package of essential medicines as an integral component of treatment within the continuum of care, developing and disseminating the Model List ...
Note: this list is provided as an indicative list only. It does not have legal status. Example list from Ethiopia
This document is updated.
Please check the document:Priority medical devices list for the COVID-19 response and associated technical specifications
CDC Afrique est préoccupé par les informations inexactes distribués par les médias traditionnels et sociaux en ce qui concerne la prévention et le traitement des maladies nouvelles coronavirus (Covid-19).
Sur la base d’un examen des preuves et de l’évaluation d’experts, le CDC Afrique r...
Последнее обновление: 6 марта 2020 г.
Лабораторное подтверждение случая COVID-19 влечет за собой тщательное расследование. Поскольку в настоящий момент в продаже еще н...
O Centro Africano de Prevenção e Luta contra Doenças (CDC-África) está preocupado com a divulgação de informações incorrectas através de meios de comunicação tradicionais e sociais sobre a prevenção e o tratamento de nova doença de coronavírus (COVID-19).
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) is concerned about inaccurate information being distributed through traditional and social media regarding prevention and treatment of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
Este documento é uma atualização das Orientações provisórias da OPAS para o gerenciamento de casos de COVID-19 nos serviços de saúde. A lista de dispositivos médicos prioritários no contexto do vírus COVID-19 fornece descrições técnicas e especificações para o manejo de pacientes com...
This guideline is for:
• health and care practitioners
• health and care staff involved in planning and delivering services
• commissioners.
The recommendations bring together:
• existing national and international guidance and policies
• advice from specialists working in the NHS fr...
Oxygen is an essential medicine required at all levels of the health care system; only high quality, medical-grade oxygen should be given to patients. Pressure swing adsorption (PSA) oxygen generating plants are a source of medical-grade oxygen. This document provides technical specifications as th...
A recent study informed that ivermectin was successfully used in vitro for the treatment of SARS-CoV-2 in experimentally infected cells and two preprint publications on observational clinical studies reported the apparent utility of ivermectin to treat patients with COVID-19 needing mechanical venti...
Countries can use this tool to collect in-depth facility inventories of biomedical equipment re-allocation, procurement and planning for COVID-19 case management. The survey assesses quantified availability and the causes for non-functioning of different sources of oxygen delivery and supply systems...
