COVID-19 reinforces the need to improve sepsis care resources in Africa

Affiliations

• ¹ Infectious Disease Division, Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
• ² Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust, Liverpool, UK.
• ³ Paediatric Unit, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana.
• ⁴ Department of Infectious Diseases, Center of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centres, Location AMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. m.p.grobusch@amsterdamumc.nl.
• ⁵ School of Nursing, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
• ⁶ Department of Paediatrics and Emergency Medicine, Global Child Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
• ⁷ National Ribat University, Khartoum, Sudan.
• ⁸ Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano, Nigeria.
• ⁹ Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan.
• ¹⁰ Department of Anaesthesia and Surgical Intensive Care Medicine, Charité, Global Sepsis Alliance, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
• ¹¹ Pulmonology and Critical Care, Charlotte Makeke University Hospital, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
• ¹² Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK.