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COVID-19 response: Powering health facilities

The COVID-19 crisis has punctuated the critical role of electricity for powering medical services. Healthcare facilities rely on adequate, reliable electricity to treat patients effectively. SEforALL has compiled resources and news that will support collaboration between the energy and healthcare sectors to deliver power when and where it is needed.

 

Powering Healthcare: Find out more about our work
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COVID-19 response: Supporting the off-grid energy sector
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Webinar

Marketplace webinar for powering healthcare solutions
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Powering healthcare to support COVID-19 response: Best practices and lessons from past and current interventions
Powerless in a pandemic: Solar energy prescribed for off-grid healthcare

COVID-19 has made clear the need for reliable power in rural health facilities - including to cool an eventual coronavirus vaccine.

Read Thomson Reuters Foundation article

Strategy resources

Powering Health Facilities - Approach

SEforALL (draft), 2020

COVID-19 emergency power supply response

World Bank (draft), 2020

Disease commodity packages

WHO, 2020

Severe Acute Respiratory Infections Treatment Centre

WHO Publication, 2020

Guidance for management of COVID-19 in healthcare facilities

Mazzetti, 2020

Data and energy demand

Planning for COVID-19 in developing countries using earth observation and data analytics

TFE Energy/Village Data Analytics, 2020

A spatial database of health facilities managed by the public health sector in sub Saharan Africa

Nature Scientific Data, 2019

Oxygen concentrators - Market research

SELCO Foundation, 2020

Solar powered ventilators in the context of COVID-19

SELCO Foundation, 2020

System design, planning and implementation

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Powering Healthcare Solutions Catalogue
Emergency solutions for power supply to isolation centers/health facilities for COVID-19 crisis relief

SEforALL, 2020

Lasting Impact: Sustainable Off-Grid Solar Delivery Models to Power Health and Education

SEforALL, 2019

Sustainable energy access for COVID-19 testing

SELCO Foundation, 2020

Sustainable energy driven and climate responsive infrastructure for isolation and therapeutic units for COVID-19

SELCO Foundation, 2020

Template TOR for electric power systems for COVID-19 response (TA Consultancy)

World Bank (draft), 2020

Template TOR for electric power systems for COVID-19 response (Installation)

World Bank (draft), 2020

Selected articles

Don’t just electrify remote health centres, equip and connect them!, The New Times Rwanda, 21 July 2020

Solar Power: A Rural Indian Hospital’s Key to Fighting COVID-19, WRI, 14 July 2020

WHO: This is how electricity shortage impacts healthcare delivery in Africa, Interview with Dr. Maria Neira; CNBC Africa, 24 June 2020

COVID-19: All On-funded Solar Relief Fund supported installations completed in Nigeria, The Daily, 2 June 2020

Energy access is needed to maintain health during pandemics, Nature Energy, 11 May 2020

Zimbabwe: Local solar company lights up clinics in fight against Covid-19, Chronicle, 4 May 2020

Tanzanian healthcare centres to receive free electricity services, ESI Africa, 28 April 2020

SOS - A call for help from Liberia, We Care Solar, 22 April 2020

Winch Energy: Winch launches containerised solar-lit clinics, Afrik21, 21 April 2020

DRE Technologies: COVID-19 Roundup, Power for All, 20 April 2020

REA Nigeria: Why we completed 4 solar power plants for COVID-19 centres in 14 days – Ahmad, Daily Trust, 17 April 2020

Solarkiosk and UNITAR launch a "Solar Power Initiative against COVID-19", Solarkiosk, 9 April 2020

News and opinion

Medical cold chain

News

Over one billion at risk from lack of sustainable cooling access as COVID-19 intensifies challenge
You can’t fight pandemics without power—electric power

By Rob Fetter, Anthony Fuller, Jem Porcaro and Cyrus Sinai

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Opinion

Damilola Ogunbiyi and Riccardo Puliti: Energy access takes center stage in COVID-19 fight, powering Africa's recovery
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Opinion

Damilola Ogunbiyi: Power in a pandemic - why energy access matters during coronavirus
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Opinion

Editor's pick: Powering health across Africa through COVID-19 and a changing climate
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Opinion

Editor's pick: Coronavirus is not the only global health crisis. Just ask ½ billion people.
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