The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that severe and mounting disruption to the global supply of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) – caused by rising demand, panic buying, hoarding and misuse – is putting lives at risk from the new coronavirus and other infectious diseases. Healthcare workers rely on Personal Protective Equipment to protect themselves and their patients from being infected and infecting others.But shortages are leaving doctors, nurses and other frontline workers dangerously ill-equipped to care for COVID-19 patients, due to limited access to supplies such as Gloves, Medical Masks, Respirators, Goggles, Face Shields, Gowns and Aprons.
“Without secure supply chains, the risk to healthcare workers around the world is real. Industry and governments must act quickly to boost supply, ease export restrictions and put measures in place to stop speculation and hoarding. We can’t stop COVID-19 without protecting health workers first,” said WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
To meet rising global demand, WHO estimates that industry must increase manufacturing by 40% and urges governments to act quickly to boost supply.
The COVID-19 pandemic is rapidly spreading across countries and regions, causing huge impact on people’s lives and communities. Starting as a health crisis, it now poses serious threats to the global economy, trade, and finance, with the estimated economic impacts to range between $2 trillion and $4.1 trillion globally (ADB 2020a). Surging demand, partly joined with panic buying, hoarding, and misuse of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) amid the COVID-19 pandemic, is disrupting global supplies and putting lives at risk. Demand has surged, overwhelming global production capacity.
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