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Ministries of Health in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Republic of Moldova, Poland, Romania and Slovakia have provided guidance for the following list of urgently needed medical supplies. The supplies list noting essential items for which we are requesting support will be revised continuously, as per recommendations provided by health authorities ...
Member States recognized in World Health Assembly (WHA) resolutions WHA60.29 (2007) and WHA 67.20 (2014) that medical devices are indispensable for health-care delivery but that their selection, regulation and use present enormous challenges, especially for low- and middle-income countries (LMIC).
But shortages are leaving doctors, nurses and other frontline workers dangerously ill-equipped to care for COVID-19 patients, due to limited access to supplies such as gloves, medical masks, respirators, goggles, face shields, gowns, and aprons. “Without secure supply chains, the risk to healthcare workers around the world is real.
Medical equipment is used for the specific purposes of diagnosis and treatment of disease or rehabilitation following disease or injury; it can be used either alone or in combination with any accessory, consumable or other piece of medical equipment. Medical equipment excludes implantable, disposable or single-use medical devices.
Besides tangible medical and humanitarian supplies, WHO is also providing capacity-building and technical guidance to meet ongoing health needs. WHO has so far trained more than 11 000 health care workers on a range of issues, including trauma surgery, mass casualties, chemical exposure, epidemiology, and laboratory diagnostics.
WHO has developed standardized health kits of medicines and medical supplies to meet different health needs in humanitarian emergencies and disasters. These kits are developed to provide reliable and affordable medicines and supplies quickly to those in need.
This list present the different types of medical devices including medical equipment, personal protective equipment (PPE), and other medical supplies for the management of COVID-19 patients. The list describe alternative options that should be considered based on available infrastructure, health workforce and technologies.
WHO has delivered $1.6 million worth of essential COVID-19 medical supplies and equipment to Central Medical Store of the Ministry of Public Health of Afghanistan, a country with a health system facing severe challenges.
WHO has standardized medicines and medical supplies needed in emergencies to allow swift, efficient and effective response to the need for medicines and medical supplies. This has led to the supply of standard, pre-packed kits that can be kept in readiness to meet priority health needs in emergency.
WHO has been permitted to deliver medical supplies to Tigray, Ethiopia, for the first time since July 2021, but there is no fuel to distribute them to health centres.The supplies, which are now in storage until they can be distributed, include essential medical equipment, personal protective equipment, antibiotics, medicines for malaria and diabetes, including insulin, treatment for severe ...