Role of Health Care Infrastructure and Expenditure on COVID19 Pandemic: Scenario from Most Affected Countries

ABSTRACT

Purpose: The recent pattern of the COVID19 have hit hard to the entire world engulfing many lives within it. We intended to portray the association between the hospital resources such as Hospital beds, Intensive care unit beds (ICU beds), percentage of Gross Domestic Products (GDP) on health with total confirmed cases and total deaths among different countries. Methods: The data of these available health resources in 45 countries were collected from the secondary data sources. The mortality data were collected from situation report by World Health Organization (WHO). Results: The overall mortality rate was 7.29% across 45 countries. The average number of available Hospital beds, ICU beds, GDP on health was 4.30±2.66, 11.43±9.03 and 8.31±2.56 respectively. More-over, the country that spend highest on health face maximum number of confirmed cases (r2 = 0.538) and mortality (r2 = 0.516). Conclusion: There was found that those countries spent more percentage of GDP on health having a greater number of confirmed cases and deaths, but not found any statistical significance with other health resources. © 2022, MedSci Publications. All rights reserved.