To gauge the need for supplies/equipment and health work force requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic, WHO has developed a suite of complimentary surge calculators -- one for supplies and two for health workforce.
- COVID-19 Essential Supplies Forecasting Tool: projects essential supply needs, including the estimation of personal protective equipment, diagnostic equipment, biomedical equipment for case management, essential drugs for supportive care, and consumable medical supplies.
- The Health Workforce Estimator assists countries in estimating the numbers of health workers needed based on projected numbers of moderate, severe and critical patients per day.
- The Adaptt Surge Planning Support Tool helps users to estimate the number of beds required for moderate, severe and critical care, the dates of predicted bed shortages and the detailed human resources needed.
- An array of technical guidance about emergency global supply system catalogue, list of priority medical devices for COVID-19 case management, oxygen sources and distribution for COVID-19 treatment centres, COVID-19 critical items list.