The Children’s Hospitals in Africa Mapping Project (CHAMP) survey: Facilities, equipment, supplies, infrastructure, and capacity to respond to emergencies

The Children's Hospitals in Africa Mapping Project (CHAMP) survey was developed and implemented to assess the capabilities of some of the best resourced sub-Saharan African hospitals serving children. The aim was to evaluate hospital facilities, infrastructure, equipment, supplies, services, staffing, and readiness to care for children amid public health emergencies. This report analysed a subset of survey questions that characterised the hospitals and assessed facilities, equipment, supplies, infrastructure and capacity to respond to emergencies and outbreaks. Twenty-four sites were recruited. Twenty hospitals from 15 countries completed the survey from 2018 to 2019. This portion of the CHAMP study identified issues with facilities, equipment, supplies, infrastructure, and the capacity to respond to emergencies and infectious disease outbreaks. On a day-to-day basis, most hospitals were operating at or near capacity and frequently experienced power outages and water shortages. Overall, most hospitals were ill-prepared to manage a major disaster or infectious disease outbreak. If countries are to be prepared to deal with current needs as well as to prevent, detect, and rapidly respond to public health threats, hospitals that care for children will require significant investments.

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PLOS Global Public Health
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2025-11-26
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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0005153
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The Children's Hospitals in Africa Mapping Project (CHAMP) survey was developed and implemented to assess the capabilities of some of the best resourced sub-Saharan African hospitals serving children. The aim was to evaluate hospital facilities, infrastructure, equipment, supplies, services, staffing, and readiness to care for children amid public health emergencies. This report analysed a subset of survey questions that characterised the hospitals and assessed facilities, equipment, supplies, infrastructure and capacity to respond to emergencies and outbreaks. Twenty-four sites were recruited. Twenty hospitals from 15 countries completed the survey from 2018 to 2019. This portion of the CHAMP study identified issues with facilities, equipment, supplies, infrastructure, and the capacity to respond to emergencies and infectious disease outbreaks. On a day-to-day basis, most hospitals were operating at or near capacity and frequently experienced power outages and water shortages. Overall, most hospitals were ill-prepared to manage a major disaster or infectious disease outbreak. If countries are to be prepared to deal with current needs as well as to prevent, detect, and rapidly respond to public health threats, hospitals that care for children will require significant investments.

PLOS Global Public HealthVol. 5(11)
Women's University in Africa (ZW), University of Nairobi (KE), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (US), Ministry of Health (ZM), Moi University (KE), University of Liberia (LR), University of Zimbabwe (ZW), University of Botswana (BW), University of Cape Town (ZA), University of Ibadan (NG), University of Sierra Leone (SL), University of the Witwatersrand (ZA), Ministry of Health and Child Welfare (ZW), Brown University (US), Columbia University Irving Medical Center (US), Adventist University of Africa (KE), Aga Khan University Nairobi (KE), African Union (ET), University of Benin Teaching Hospital (NG), Tropical Diseases Research Centre (ZM), Rwanda Biomedical Center (RW), St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College (ET), Addis Ababa University (ET), Makerere University (UG), Midlands State University (ZW)
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