Zororo Makamba should not die again coronavirus. Not only because of his age but because of who was on the 30th put him well out of harm category COVID-19 complications. A well-known, the government media in Zimbabwe personality and the son of a business tycoon leading Makamba had the wealth and connections that would have guaranteed the best care. In place of the earlier, on March 23, Zimbabwe case of three days crown died alone in a hospital quarantine after a confirmed diagnosis. Hospital staff and the lack of protective equipment, they were afraid to approach him. He had no drugs and there was no fan available. personal calls to the President for transmission went unheeded, published an account of his brother in a local newspaper. Makamba death shocked the nation, not just because, but because he is a celebrity, how unprepared the country is a hotbed crown. “If someone like Zororo, someone is so Monied connected and then you can not get proper care, what chance does an ordinary Zimbabweans like me?”, You ask human Thandekile Moyo. As an African and powerful nations like the rich paused United States under the strain they see you’re starting to ask the same question. As the categories of people most at risk the crown, many Saharan countries share the same conditions collapsing even more vulnerable if an outbreak of make shots. Heath care systems are underfunded and ill-equipped. The conflict, climate change and natural disasters have expected about 18 million people across the continent in poor and wash overcrowded camps for refugees and displaced persons in social distancing or even by hand, it is impossible driven. Poverty becomes lockdowns in a death sentence. And in countries where confidence in the government is poor, rumors and misinformation thrive instead of leadership. Now there are more than 10,000 cases in the continent, with infections in all countries except one (very small, landlocked Lesotho). The rapid spread of the virus in recent days, the World Health Organization officials and aid groups worried that the continent is about to tip into the massive escalation. If this is the case, the impact is likely to be much worse, both in terms of disease burden and its economic impact, as seen from anything else. “We do not know if a country can withstand this,” said Emma Naylor-Ngugi, the Eastern, Central and Southern Africa Regional Director for the organization of humanitarian aid CARE. “It ‘s very difficult not really take the devastating humanitarian crisis in the long term in the region in the eyes.” If the virus affects the continent crowded cities, its fields below or refugee populations already suffering from malnutrition different health problems, HIV, malaria, tuberculosis and cholera could easily overwhelm it that there are few services doctors. And if the cases rocket from wealthy nations to recover from their starting outbreaks, may be more difficult to raise international aid that the continent is so desperately need to survive. Without a strong campaign of social distancing, public health workers estimate that a quarter or more of the population may be infected. being in Africa, which could be up to 250 million cases, a daunting prospect for Dr. Jerry Brown, the Liberia response guide for the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has contributed in 2014 and now helps his country for a outbreak of Corona prepare. “Most African countries, if not all, do not have what they need to fight this pandemic,” he says. There is no continent-wide statistics on the number of fans or the intensive care unit in Africa, but gradually painted a bleak portrait of available services report. A doctor in Zimbabwe where Makamba died for lack of a fan to work, estimated to be less than the 20 public hospitals in the country. A senior hospital administrators in Khartoum said the South African Mail and Guardian newspaper that is not more than 80 fans across the country was. Nigeria, the population of 200 million, reported fewer than 500 fans. Only three are in the Central African Republic, a country of nearly five million people available, said David Manan, Country Director for the Norwegian Refugee Council. “If the rich countries are in panic mode claiming that thousands of fans will not be sufficient, brings to light only as the poorest countries such as Central African Republic have no chance-19 COVID. Fighting,” says Brown, who in better of our knowledge, Liberia there are no fans at all. Without the right kind of care for the most serious cases, he says, “five percent of the patients who will go with the serious illness of the mold condition.” For a patient in severe respiratory failure, “I would not do to provide care support may be able to do, and slowly die in my presence.” In many countries there is a doctor there either. Overall, sub-Saharan Africa has the lowest number of doctors per 10,000, a statistic that is usually used to improve the quality of health care to measure in a country. “I get scared when I read about Italy being overwhelmed in spite of all the 243 people to have a doctor,” Oxfam’s Pan Africa director Peter Kamalingin b.L program writes in an e-mail. “In Zambia the ratio is one doctor for 10,000 people.” The overall lack of protective equipment also hit African nations. In Zimbabwe, doctors and nurses gloves are equipped with an output torque, two masks, and a paper apron so Dr. Peter layer, a surgeon in a public hospital in Harare, the incomplete name for fear of reprisals from the government that they ask to use. And ‘even more frightening, he says, because there is not enough evidence from those regularly use the crown infected patients. “Officially we have eight cases,” he said in an interview last week. The official count is now as good as to be sure that the crown, and we saw many dead who have returned up to 10. “But I know you know a lot more. We, that many people have symptoms with the virus might be.” without evidence and without safety devices, doctors and nurses will be particularly affected if the outbreak occurs, he says. “It will be in the Bible as the abduction. One day you will notice that all health care workers have been infected, and they will simply disappear. Who will help the patient, then?” Not all statistics in Africa is a cause for alarm. It ‘also the youngest continent in the world, with an average age of 19.7 years. While scientific knowledge on how the crown of the people Strikes in development, so it seems that the impact on young people, as long is minimal because they have other underlying health problems. There are also circulated to understand how diseases spread here. Previous epidemics such as Ebola and cholera have taught many public health, how to prepare for an outbreak. Many have closed the borders and shut down schools at the first sign of the disease, instead leaves a critical mass, as some Western countries reach. At this point in most countries of the continent, the application is lockdowns at national level, and some are already beginning to see results. Africa Health Minister of South Zweli Mkhize found that the daily increase of positive cases after a week of severe shelter-orders slowed a positive change in particular that the country is more time to get sufficient protection devices and prepare enough isolation wards. “We thought we have 4,000 or 5,000 cases from now would be,” he said on March 31, the current total of cases in 1686 is the highest number in Africa. But lockdowns, but the virus to fight well, bringing economic misery that is particularly acute here. Seventy percent of the African population depends on the informal economy for daily survival. without cleaning houses, taxis, no motorbike and no market their goods sold other things, many face hunger driving. “If it continues for more than a month, it would crown that kills us, will be hungry,” said Moyo, a Zimbabwean activist. And while lockdowns can for individual households are working, the water in the home and who can afford to stock up on food, could go where life together is the norm in the fields at the back. Most of the families in Moyo district online for daily needs in a public fountain, she says. “Imagine, I have to queue water. I queued food. Well, I have taken the virus, and go home to my house overcrowded and distribute it to all those who merely there with me. A block in these types of areas could actually even more widespread virus in the end. “it is not the people to leave their homes at all is tantamount to starve voluntarily with people asking, he says. “Unless it is expressed food and water for each family every day, the only way people will keep in, to the point of a gun.” African nations do what they can with what they have, Liberia says Dr. Brown, but unfortunately it is still not enough. It ‘a tough ask, but also the countries that are currently caught with their outbreaks need a thought for those on the left who can still afford less. As a family Zororo Makamba found wealth is meaningless, if a disease knows no boundaries, and raging through all the available resources. Stop a pandemic that affects millions of lives in Africa threat requires a global response, says Dr. Brown, not only for the benefit of the continent, but also for the good of the world. “This pandemic has shown that no nation is higher. If we believe that this is a disease of only the West, we are wrong. If we think that it is a disease Africans felt alone, were wrong. As long as we have the disease in a country , the rest of the world “ Yasuyoshi Picture of copyright is not safe. Chiba AFP via Getty Images
Few doctors, fewer fans: African countries fear that they defenseless against the inevitable spread of Corona
