Fighting For Survival in the Shadow of Covid-19

Fighting For Survival in the Shadow of Covid-19 For low-income countries, 'pandemic preparedness' means more than fighting the next virus. It’s about building the capacity necessary to keep entire health systems from crumbling. YahooNews

BOLGATANGA, Ghana — A nurse dressed in a white hazmat suit stands at a rickety wooden table folding surgical instruments into sheets of blue paper and placing them into a cardboard box on the floor. Next to her sits a white microwave-looking machine, one that is supposed to help sanitize scalpels and forceps, but is on the fritz — the door keeps popping open.

“We have to try and sanitize each tool individually ourselves,” she says. “Then we wrap it to save it for the next surgery.”...