Sustaining Essential Health Care During Covid-19: A Toolkit for Local Leaders to Adapt Health Services in Low-Resource Settings assists leaders in responding to surging health care needs that threaten to overwhelm the system. The tool focuses on mitigating the spread of illness, transitioning to a triage-based approach to care, and ensuring access to essential non-pandemic care.
The toolkit is organized into three parts: (1) a preliminary section of guidance and background, (2) the three tools listed below, and (3) the nine worksheets listed in the table of contents. The tools are:
Tool 1: Mitigation Interventions
The various mitigation interventions and the benefits and unintended consequences of implementing them
Tool 2: Maintenance of Essential Health Services
A process to identify and plan for the continuation of essential COVID-19 and non- COVID-19 services
Tool 3: Triage (Surge) Planning
An approach to allocate health care resources to maximize outcomes
