Senegal’s Strategy : 1 Bed, 1 Case | Global Health NOW
▻https://www.globalhealthnow.org/2020-05/senegals-strategy-1-bed-1-case
#Senegal has so far been able to deliver on an ambitious promise to offer hospital beds to all #COVID-19 patients—and their contacts.
The government is also making it easier to stay home by paying electricity bills and purchasing food for 1 million eligible households.
Also key is Senegal’s Health Emergency Operation Center, which has spent years running disease outbreak simulations.
Senegal’s strategy seems to have helped keep COVID-19 cases from exploding—but there are controversial elements to the response as well, including treating patients with hydroxychloroquine, a controversial and unproven treatment.
▻https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/05/17/856016429/senegal-pledges-a-bed-for-every-coronavirus-patient-and-their-contacts-too