Kehdinga GF, Engineering for Survival in Rural Africa in the Era of Covid-19 (1).pdf (454.69 kB)
Engineering for Survival in Rural Africa in the Era of Covid-19
journal contribution
posted on 2021-11-25, 09:30 authored by Dr. Kehdinga George FomunyamEngineering has been reputed as a discipline that
makes things work better. By the ingenuity of engineering, there
is the potential to deploy creativity to solve some of the problems
of the world and help in shaping the future. Shortly after the
novel coronavirus, SARS-COV-2 (2019-NCov) was initially
identified in the Chinese city of Wuhan in a group of patients
diagnosed with pneumonia on December 31, 2019, it resulted to
fast paced human to human transmission which has generated
lots of media stirs and hype concerning issues of public health
globally. Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a ribonucleic
acid virus (RNA) which has the physical appearance of a crown
when viewed under the microscope which is as a result of
glycoprotein spikes on its envelope. Findings from the study
revealed that engineering has great impact on health conditions
in rural Africa and the era of COVID-19 brought with it various
consequences on the health systems of people. Understanding
that there is no known cure for COVID-19 is key and various
countries of the world depended on their knowledge and expertise
to deal with the disease. This study therefore recommends that
there is a need for intensified effort on engineering in rural
Africa.