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Health Digest: How Equity Bank & its Foundation stepped in to provide PPEs to health workers

17th April, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic has made it clear how important Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs)  is for the safety of people especially frontline healthcare workers who are at much greater risk of acquiring the infection while at work.   Whereas healthcare workers rely on PPEs to protect themselves and their patients from being infected and infecting others, the emergence of the pandemic, and subsequent surge in the number of infections reported globally worsened the demand for supplies to effectively combat the virus that penetrated the Kenyan borders in March 2020.   Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral and Research Hospital being one of the designated covid-19 facilities, bore the brunt of this increasing  demand for PPE’s  in the country. To enable its healthcare workers to attend to the huge number of patients who continue streaming into the facility for the much-needed care, PPEs were going to be critical even now when the country is battling thethird wave of the virus

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