Africa: Over 500,000 Covid-19 Patients in Low-Income Countries Need Oxygen Treatment Daily

[WHO] Since the start of the pandemic, affordable and sustainable access to oxygen has been a growing challenge in low- and middle-income countries. COVID-19 has put huge pressure on health systems, with hospitals in many LMICs running out of oxygen, resulting in preventable deaths and families of hospitalised patients paying a premium for scarce oxygen supplies. Oxygen is an essential medicine, and despite being vital for the effective treatment of hospitalised COVID-19 patients, access in LMICs is limited due
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - Category: African Health Source Type: news