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Challenges of caring for children in LMICs
- Testing capacity is extremely constrained in many LMICs and scaling up rapid testing is challenging.
- Overcrowded wards are an existing barrier to infection prevention transmission within health facilities in LMICs and could enhance SARS-CoV-2.
- Over half of health facilities in resource limited settings have insufficient oxygen supply and pulse oximetry, and dedicated paediatric intensive care services are rare
- Maintaining regular childhood preventive and curative services through the pandemic is a particular problem in LMICs, due to resource constraints, closure of facilities, limited access to health facilities and insufficient health care workers or drug supplies.
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Updated 2020-11-20
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SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)
Biomedical Sciences