The health system measures put into place in Mauritius to contain the spread of COVID-19 are:
On 24 March, the Federal Government announced a hospital conversion to better coordinate and integrate available space in hospitals and other infrastructures to take care of COVID-19 patients. These measures include the use of the military health system, as well as the infrastructure for natural disasters or other catastrophic events (Plan DN-III and Plan Marina).
Government launched a call to recruit 43,000 additional health personnel, including nurses, doctors and specialists, to support the response to the health crisis, including in marginalized areas.
– On 30 March, the National Health Emergency Agreement was published. It includes the role of different Ministries to assure the availability of tests, equipment and medicines to deal with the crisis.
On 1 April, the Ministry of Health launched the app “COVID-19MX”, which seeks to reinforce knowledge, to promote measures of prevention on COVID-19 and to facilitate exchange of information between health officials and citizens. The app also gathers health data from users to determine their risk levels and enables them to self-diagnose.
On 7 April, Mexico established an air bridge with China that will consist of 30 flights to buy medical equipment. So far, seven flights have taken place.
On 13 April, the Government of Mexico signed an agreement with 146 private hospitals from 27 States, where 50% of its beds will be used by the Federal Government to take care of patients not affected by COVID-19 in order to reduce pressure in the public hospitals, which could concentrate up to 12,500 patients of coronavirus.
The published information can be found here
