{"id":987524783,"date":"2020-07-25T03:39:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T02:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/news\/what-does-it-cost-to-treat-a-covid-19-patient-in-kenya-brief\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:43:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:43:05","slug":"what-does-it-cost-to-treat-a-covid-19-patient-in-kenya-brief","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/news\/what-does-it-cost-to-treat-a-covid-19-patient-in-kenya-brief\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does it Cost to Treat a COVID-19 Patient in Kenya? (Brief)"},"content":{"rendered":"

What Does it Cost to Treat a COVID-19 Patient in Kenya?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span> (Brief)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/kemri-wellcome.org\/news\/what-does-it-cost-to-treat-a-covid-19-patient-in-kenya\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 Key Messages <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/u><\/p>\n

\u2022 Per patient COVID-19 case management costs in hospitals are substantial ranging from KES 21,359 (U$ 202.47<\/strong>) per day for asymptomatic patients, KES 21,361 <\/strong>(U$ 202.50<\/strong>) per day for patients with mild symptoms, KES 24,705 <\/strong>(U$ 234.19<\/strong>) for patients with severe disease and KES 51,684 (U$ 489.93) <\/strong>for critical COVID-19 patients in ICU\u2019s<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 There is therefore an urgent need to develop a sustainable financing arrangement for COVID-19 for the country<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 If these costs are passed on to patients to pay out of pocket, they will result in significant catastrophe and impoverishment<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 It is imperative therefore for the country to develop a prepayment mechanism to provide financial risk protection to patients and households against the financial hardship that they will face if required to pay for COVID-19 case management costs out of pocket<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Per patient health system costs for COVID-19 case management are driven by PPE costs which accounts for approximately 65% <\/strong>of total costs <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span>Interventions to reduce PPE costs will improve the affordability of COVID-19 case management <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span>Home based care <\/span><\/span><\/strong>for asymptomatic and mild COVID-19 patients is 9 times cheaper <\/strong>to the health system compared to institutional care (hospitals or isolation centers) <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Institutional care is driven by PPE, accommodation & overhead (hotel) costs, and staff costs<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 The cost savings from home care should however be weighed against feasibility of home-based care and resultant impact on health outcomes (for COVID-19 patients, and transmission risk) <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Et pourquoi pas le m\u00eame genre d\u2019exercice en Ha\u00efti\u2026 ?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What Does it Cost to Treat a COVID-19 Patient in Kenya? (Brief) https:\/\/kemri-wellcome.org\/news\/what-does-it-cost-to-treat-a-covid-19-patient-in-kenya\/  Key Messages \u2022 Per patient COVID-19 case management costs in hospitals are substantial ranging from KES 21,359 (U$ 202.47) per day for asymptomatic patients, KES 21,361 (U$ 202.50) per day for patients with mild symptoms, KES 24,705 (U$ 234.19) for patients with…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1201,"featured_media":987532083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[124,131,132,133],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987524783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987532083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987524783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987524783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987524783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}