The Ethiopian health ministry's own "worst-case scenario" modelling predicts the country will require around 1,500 ventilators for COVID-19 patients by the end of April, Yakob said. The Norwegian Refugee Council reported this week there were just three ventilators in Central African Republic, a country of five million people. "These are actions that need to start happening before we get to that stage where we have a large number of cases." -'We're definitely worried'-As Ethiopia's COVID-19 case count slowly increases, officials are assessing how to make do with what they have. Yet many ventilators in Ethiopia were donated, meaning health facilities do not have a direct line to manufacturers and struggle to find spare parts to maintain them.

Source: Ethiopian News April 03, 2020 09:35 UTC