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Asia Pacific

Bhutan

Programs

COVID-19

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Period of performance: September 2020 – December 2021

Achievements

Supported the installation of 15 ventilators at five hospitals after assessing each hospital’s readiness and capacity to provide critical care.

Established a cadre of expert trainers composed of 20 nurses, physicians, and anesthesiologists to deliver trainings on critical care and COVID-19 case management to health care workers.

Adapted the adult COVID-19 case management training curricula — developed by EpiC and the University of California San Francisco — to the local context and used the curricula to train 100 doctors and 290 nurses in COVID-19 clinical case management.

Addressed capability gaps to provide critical care in health facilities by updating or developing eight intensive care unit clinical protocols to support management of COVID-19 patients.

Developed a web-based COVID-19 equipment tracking system and trained 40 biomedical personnel on the system’s use to ensure an accurate inventory of all COVID-19-related equipment in health facilities across the country.


Featured resources

Rapidly strengthening capacity of health care workers in Bhutan to provide lifesaving COVID-19 case management and critical care View
Strengthening critical care capacity to manage COVID-19 patients in BhutanView
Young doctor from Bhutan leads the country’s COVID-19 responseView
COVID-19 case management in Bhutan: Establishing a cadre of master trainersView

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