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.
This brief provides an analysis of international finance commitments and disbursements to Sierra Leone –– one of the countries worst affected by the 2014–2016 Ebola outbreak.
This catalogue serves the purpose of connecting stakeholders from the energy and health sectors with solutions providers, to help meet the energy needs of healthcare facilities in response to COVID-19 and beyond.
Strategy resources
SEforALL (draft), 2020
World Bank (draft), 2020
WHO, 2020
WHO Publication, 2020
Mazzetti, 2020
Data and energy demand
TFE Energy/Village Data Analytics, 2020
Nature Scientific Data, 2019
SELCO Foundation, 2020
SELCO Foundation, 2020
System design, planning and implementation
USAID, 2020
SEforALL, 2020
SEforALL, 2019
SELCO Foundation, 2020
SELCO Foundation, 2020
World Bank (draft), 2020
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
By Rob Fetter, Anthony Fuller, Jem Porcaro and Cyrus Sinai
