Services: DRRM, Communications
Location: Malaysia
Year: 2021
Client: MERCY Malaysia and Maybank
Between the months of April until June 2021, some of the country’s main hospitals were on the brink of collapsing due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed an acute shortage of health resources in Malaysia – ranging from medical equipment to preparedness, operational and spatial capacity, and resource mobilization.
The report was produced to measure the impact of the COVID-19 Hospital Surge Capacity Support Plan program by also looking at the wider effects of the program – social, economic, technical, environmental – on individual, community and institutional levels, as well as using epidemiological indicators, e.g. numbers of patients treated, or numbers of lives saved in understanding the program’s impact on health and healthcare services.
