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Africa-Press<\/a> – Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Seriously ill Covid-19 patients in African countries are more likely to die than those on other continents, which could be because of a lack of critical care equipment, a study published Friday said.<\/p>\n

Africa’s populations have so far been less badly hit by the pandemic than other regions when it comes to total number of cases and deaths — but the authors suggest the mortality rate of those who do get sick could be even higher than their figures suggest because of a lack of data.<\/p>\n

“Our study is the first to give a detailed and comprehensive picture of what is happening to people who are severely ill with Covid-19 in Africa,” Bruce Biccard from Groote Schuur Hospital and the University of Cape Town said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“Sadly, it indicates that our ability to provide sufficient care is compromised by a shortage of critical care beds and limited resources within intensive care units,” Biccard, who co-led the research, added.<\/p>\n

The study followed 3,000 coronavirus patients admitted to intensive care units across 10 African countries between May and December last year.<\/p>\n

Almost half of them died within 30 days of admission.<\/p>\n

When the researchers compared their findings with corresponding studies from other continents, they found the mortality rate was lower elsewhere.<\/p>\n

On average 31.5 percent of critically ill patients died after admission to intensive care in Asia, Europe and the Americas, compared to 48.2 percent in African countries.<\/p>\n

Insufficient data<\/b><\/p>\n

“Poor access to potential life-saving interventions… could be factors in the deaths of these patients, and may also partly explain why one in eight patients had therapy withdrawn or limited,” said Biccard.<\/p>\n

The authors estimated that access to treatments such as dialysis and ECMO, a treatment that pumps and oxygenates a patient’s blood outside of the body, was between seven and 14 times lower than what is required to treat severely ill patients.<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly the study also showed that patients with other health issues such as diabetes, AIDS or kidney problems were more at risk of dying than those without.<\/p>\n

The authors hope their study, published in the Lancet medical journal, will begin to fill a void of data on critically ill Covid-19 patients in Africa.<\/p>\n

But noting the limitations of their research, they suggested the situation on the ground could be even worse.<\/p>\n

The majority of the 64 hospitals in which the study was conducted were state-funded university hospitals, which are generally better equipped than others.<\/p>\n

The study looked at patients in Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Libya, Malawi, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria and South Africa.<\/p>\n

Some of these — in particular Egypt and South Africa — are among the better medically resourced countries on the continent.<\/p>\n

A total of nearly 130,000 people have died from Covid-19 in Africa, compared with more than 1.1 million in Europe and over 3.4 million worldwide, according to the latest AFP tally from official sources.<\/p>\n

But the economic cost has been devastating, and the slow vaccine rollout has raised fears that variants could emerge on the continent that would hit Africans and then spread worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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