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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.

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Innovative Project and Financing Solutions for Powering Health

The Shell Foundation and Odyssey's Powering Health Platform have developed a pilot program to test health facility electrification models in Sub-Saharan Africa, in cooperation with UK Aid. The overall aim is to gather data and learn from the business models and relationships from developers who are on the ground engaging in discussions on powering health facilities. These learnings will be shared with other donors in the sector who are interested in Powering Health programmes at scale.

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General background

Access to Modern Energy Services for Health Facilities in Resources Constrained Settings

WHO, 2015

Modern Energy Access and Health

SEAR, 2017

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

Medical Equipment & Clinic Electrification

Efficiency for Access Coalition, 2021

Best Practices for Electrifying Rural Health Care Facilities with Decentralised Renewables

Alliance for Rural Electrification, 2020

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

SEforALL, 2019

Powering Health Facilities - Approach

SEforALL (draft), 2020

Hospital

Data analysis

19 Jul 2021

Powering Healthcare Solutions Catalogue
Electrification Options for Rural Health Clinics

USAID, 2020

Powering Health toolkit

USAID, 2020

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

SEforALL, 2020

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

Country case studies

Implementation research on sustainable electrification of rural primary care facilities in Ghana and Uganda

Oxford, 2020

Energy Sector Financing report cover

Knowledge brief

08 Oct 2020

Changes in Energy Sector Financing During COVID-19: Lessons From the Ebola Outbreak in Sierra Leone
Powering Primary Healthcare through Solar in India

CEEW, 2017

Improving Access to Clean Reliable Energy for Primary Health Care Centres in Nigeria

Heinrich Boell Stiftung, 2018

Health Facility Energy Needs Assessment - Uganda Country Summary Report

UNF, 2015

Health Facility Energy Needs Assessment - Ghana Country Summary Report

UNF, 2015

Health Facility Energy Needs Assessment - Malawi Country Summary Report

UNF, 2015

COVID-19

Disease commodity packages

WHO, 2020

Severe Acute Respiratory Infections Treatment Centre

WHO, 2020

Guidance for management of COVID-19 in healthcare facilities

Mazzetti, 2020

Medical cold chain

Chilling Prospects 2020

Research

16 Jul 2020

Chilling Prospects: Tracking Sustainable Cooling for All 2020
Cooling for All: The role of cold chain in delivering a COVID-19 vaccine

SEforALL, 2020