{"id":959,"date":"2025-07-02T23:04:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T23:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bsegreen.com\/?p=959"},"modified":"2025-07-03T01:15:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T01:15:06","slug":"pourquoi-les-chaines-du-froid-echouent-en-situation-durgence-et-qui-en-paie-le-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bsegreen.com\/en\/2025\/07\/02\/pourquoi-les-chaines-du-froid-echouent-en-situation-durgence-et-qui-en-paie-le-prix\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Cold Chains Fail in Emergencies and Who Pays the Price"},"content":{"rendered":"

When disaster strikes, the cold chain is often one of the first lifelines to collapse.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vaccines lose their effectiveness, blood donations become unusable, and diagnostic samples are compromised. But why do cold chains fail when they are needed most?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Pressures of Crisis<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  • Power Outages:<\/strong>
    Natural disasters frequently damage power infrastructure. Cold chain systems depend on uninterrupted electricity, making them vulnerable during blackouts. The World Health Organization (WHO) and World Bank report that over 50% of healthcare facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa lack reliable electricity.<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Transport Disruptions:<\/strong>
    Flooded roads, collapsed bridges, or active conflict zones can delay or block the delivery of temperature-sensitive medical products. According to the Global Competitiveness Index<\/em> World Economic Forum\u2019s the road quality score in Sub-Saharan Africa dropped from 2.8 in 2018 to 2.4 in 2019<\/strong>, significantly below the global average of 4.07.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Staff Shortages & Operational Chaos:<\/strong>
    In emergencies, attention shifts to survival. Routine cold chain practices like logging temperatures or rotating PCM packs are often skipped, risking temperature excursions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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    The Impact in Numbers<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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    • The WHO Health Emergency Preparedness and Response (HEPR) Report<\/strong> reveals that over 339 million people<\/strong> required humanitarian health services in fragile settings in 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • According to a 2013 M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res (MSF) report<\/strong>titled \"Vaccinating Children Beyond the 'Cold Chain'\"<\/em>, 35% of cold boxes<\/strong> used in emergency campaigns experienced unsafe temperature excursions due to heat exposure or delayed transport.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • A 2007 review also estimated that 35% of vaccines<\/strong> in developing countries were exposed to excessive freezing<\/strong>during storage, rendering them ineffective.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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      Bottom Line<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

      Cold chains are the invisible guardians of global health. But without resilient systems in place, essential medical supplies are lost\u2014just when vulnerable communities need them most.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Lorsqu\u2019une catastrophe survient, la cha\u00eene du froid est souvent l\u2019un des premiers syst\u00e8mes \u00e0 s\u2019effondrer. Les vaccins perdent leur efficacit\u00e9, les r\u00e9serves de sang deviennent inutilisables et les \u00e9chantillons de diagnostic sont compromis. Mais pourquoi ces d\u00e9faillances surviennent-elles au moment o\u00f9 elles sont les plus critiques\u202f? Les Pressions en Situation de Crise L\u2019Impact en Chiffres […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251924822,"featured_media":965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","content-type":"","advanced_seo_description":"Discover why cold chains collapse during crises and how power outages, transport issues, and weak systems put millions at risk.","jetpack_seo_html_title":"Why Cold Chains Fail in Emergencies | BSE GREEN","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sante"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bsegreen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/23.jpg?fit=2048%2C1366&ssl=1","author_info":{"display_name":"behalal charmant","author_link":"https:\/\/bsegreen.com\/en\/author\/cahrmani8\/"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bsegreen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/23.jpg?fit=2048%2C1366&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgrlNd-ft","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bsegreen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bsegreen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bsegreen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bsegreen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251924822"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bsegreen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bsegreen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":966,"href":"https:\/\/bsegreen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions\/966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bsegreen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bsegreen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bsegreen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bsegreen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}