Fig. 2

Shortages of essential medical supplies in healthcare facilities.  For the ‘Supplies score’ calculation, the SafeCare4Covid application considers as advanced medical supplies 5 items: mechanical or non-invasive ventilation equipment, equipment to take care of critically ill patients, airway management and intubation equipment, blood chemistry equipment, and imaging equipment (Supplementary Methods). However, in this figure we show 3 additional items under advanced medical supplies (N95/FFP2 respirators, single use aprons, and sterilization equipment) since these supplies were considered as not applicable (NA) to their facilities by a proportion of healthcare centres (Supplementary Table 1)