Assessing the Hospital Surge Capacity of the Kenyan Health System in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic

medRxiv
The COVID-19 pandemic will test the capacity of health systems worldwide. Health systems will need surge capacity to absorb acute increases in caseload due to the pandemic. The paper assessed the capacity of the Kenyan health system to absorb surges in the number of people that will need hospitalization and critical care because of the COVID-19

Publication Year:

2020

Publisher

medRxiv

Author:

Edwine Barasa, Paul O Ouma, Emelda A. Okiro
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