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Zambia, we lost a being to COVID-19 who not only was saving lives but invested all his life to this.
Did you know that 1 Zambian Doctor services 10 to 13 thousand Zambians? THREAD in memory of Dr Mulwanda Edwin. 🖤🇿🇲🕊️
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Did you know that 1 Zambian Doctor services 10 to 13 thousand Zambians? THREAD in memory of Dr Mulwanda Edwin. 🖤🇿🇲🕊️
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One doctor’s death in Zambia is a loss to more than 10,000 Zambians. In Zambia decisions of life and death were already being made on a daily basis in standard healthcare, due to lack of resources. 1/14
Zambia’s healthcare system is overburdened. Pre-COVID-19 we had barriers/challenges, COVID-19 came & now saying: 'we are overwhelmed,' is an understatement. The narrative is often: “There is nothing much we can do” versus “We did everything in our ability to save this life" 2/14
FACTS from the ground about COVID-19 in Zambia. 🇿🇲🖤Thread. #TakeHeart #ZedTwitter
->20% Positivity means that for those that tested, 1 in 5 have COVID-19.
- One week in a row since Zambia has been recording more than 24 deaths in a day. Since the 13ths of June, 24, 27, 28, 48, 33, 29, 41, 49.... RIP 🕊️🙌🖤🇿🇲1/4
- One week in a row since Zambia has been recording more than 24 deaths in a day. Since the 13ths of June, 24, 27, 28, 48, 33, 29, 41, 49.... RIP 🕊️🙌🖤🇿🇲1/4
- Oxygen demand is at an all-time high, with many who need it on a wait list.
- COVID wards are at maximum both in public and private with limited bed spaces.
- Health Care workers are overwhelmed! PS: Check-in on a Health care worker near you. 🙏 2/4
- COVID wards are at maximum both in public and private with limited bed spaces.
- Health Care workers are overwhelmed! PS: Check-in on a Health care worker near you. 🙏 2/4
Good morning #ZedTwitter
Welcome to my Thursday morning Public Service Announcement.
A thread.
I'm sure that many of you have received this picture on various social media platforms. This is not a picture of the vaccine. I repeat, this is not a picture of the vaccine.
Welcome to my Thursday morning Public Service Announcement.
A thread.
I'm sure that many of you have received this picture on various social media platforms. This is not a picture of the vaccine. I repeat, this is not a picture of the vaccine.
This is a picture of Remdesivir, an antiviral drug. It does not prevent infection, it is part of the medicines used to help recovery from viruses such as SARS-COV2 which causes covid. THEY ARE NOT THE SAME THING.
Now, as to why it is being distributed in some countries and not others. Pharmaceutical companies must have licences to distribute their drugs in countries (see below). Without those licences, the drugs cannot be imported and used. So the company that made that particular brand
Scanning of the Mineworkers' Union of #Zambia archive is complete! We now have a digital copy of the union's archive and the physical documents have been catalogued, organised and stored in acid-free boxes.
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Scholars in Zambia (and anyone else) can now consult the physical archive with permission of the Mineworkers' Union. The archive is stored at the union's head office: Katilungu House, Obote Avenue, Kitwe.
It will take longer for the digital copy to be made available as the scanned images now need to be checked for quality. Copies of the digital archive will be made available at the @IISG_Amsterdam and at the Mineworkers' Union offices in Kitwe.
