Uganda has just 55 intensive care unit (ICU) beds for a population of 42 million people. The country is spending $4.4 million on debt payments every week; in just one month, that money could pay for 280 more ICU beds to help those need urgent care.
Healthcare systems in some of the world's poorest countries need an urgent cash injection to help tackle the coronavirus.
Let's free up some cash by cancelling the debt of poorer countries to richer ones. Let's protect vulnerable people from the short and long-term impacts of the coronavirus.
Together we can protect each other and create a fairer future for us all.
In Mali there are currently just three ventilators for one million people.
Tanzania has one doctor for every 71,000 people.
Ghana is currently spending 11 times more servicing debts than on public health.
Many countries are burdened with massive amounts of debt owed to richer countries, private banks and institutions such as the IMF and World Bank.
Debt relief could free up $40 billion to help the world's poorest countries fight coronavirus.
Debt relief is the fastest way to get money to the places it's needed most.
Join the doctors and nurses at the centre of the crisis calling for debt cancellation for the world's poorest countries. Help save lives now.
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