Lei Chou

In November 2021, we worked with Matahari Global to map data on #COVID19 tools in 8 countries. Countries examined did not have formal registries for community health workers, nor were they salaried, boding poorly for future pandemic response. We also found that there is a lack of consolidated data on oxygen needs, which will hamper the effectiveness of multilateral oxygen support in 2022. Every Breath Counts says that the broken o2 plants that they know of are ‘the tip of the iceberg’. Countries also reported that stocks of syringes for routine immunisation were being used up for COVID-19 vaccines, and that these stocks were not being replenished quickly enough. View the full report here: itpcglobal.org/blog/resource/data-gaps-in-the-covid-19-response-findings-from-a-mapping-exercise-... ... See MoreSee Less