Priorities for the Care of Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19: Lessons from Tanzania and Kenya

The Provision of Essential Treatment in Critical Illness in COVID-19 (POETIC COVID) project is funded by Wellcome Trust and is a collaboration between the Center for Global Development (CGD), the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Uppsala University and KEMRI-Wellcome Trust. One of the key aims of this project is to identify the most efficient pathway for providing critical care to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic in low resourced settings from a provider perspective.

This work included estimating the costs of providing critical care to COVID-19 patients in Kenya and Tanzania and estimating and comparing the cost-effectiveness of different critical care strategies for COVID-19 patients in the form of cost per death averted/life years saved.

This event will unpack results from the POETIC-COVID-19 project.