An invisible medical deficiency: oxygen

At the height of the Covid-19 pandemology, millions of poor nations were killed in peace to breathe in hospitals, even in hospitals. The not-overhead was medical oxygen in most parts of the world.

Monday, published a comprehensive report on a specialist panel deficiency. The report annually said that more than 370 million people in the world need oxygen as part of the medical career, but less than 1 people receive it, the health and life of those who disappear. Access to safe and affordable medical oxygen is limited in low and medium-income nations.

“The need is very relevant,” said Dr. Hamish Graham is the author of a pediatrician and report. “We know that more epidemics are coming and will be another pandemic, probably like a civid for about 15-20 years.”

Lancet published in global health, a few weeks after the Trump administration, including some foreign aid programs, including oxygen, a few weeks later.

Increasing the availability of medical oxygen will require an investment worth about $ 6.8 billion. “Inside the existing climate, it will be clearly a little more difficult,” said Karolinska Institute and the author of the report of the report of the report, an infectious disease epidemiologist.

Again, governments and financing organizations must prioritize in terms of medical oxygenic medical oxygen priority. People from all ages may need oxygen for pneumonia and other respiratory conditions, malaria and sepsis, steering and chronic pulmonary conditions.

“We are not facing oxygen against other priorities, but should be included in all these programs and priorities,” said Dr. King. “This is a completely basic for a health system operating.”

Medical oxygen was often used to treat patients with pneumonia for more than 100 years. However, only in 2017 was added to the list of the necessary medicines of the World Health Organization.

At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemology, each breath counts, a coalition of more than 50 organizations, pushed for the growing entrance to medical oxygen. At the end of 2022, the Urgent Task Group mobilized the supply of more than 1 billion dollars of medical oxygen equipment and more than 100 countries.

A country that invests a substantial investment in the entrance to the oxygen is Nigeria, which has taken steps in the face of the covig.

Nigeria has built about 20 plants to produce oxygen in hospitals and explore liquid oxygen plants that can provide great threshold of urban areas, Dr. Mohammad Ali Pate said the country is the Minister of Health and Social Welfare.

Many hospitals do not have systems that can safely deliver oxygen, “said a design and some kind of inheritance problem,” he said. “There are more things that need to be done.”

Changing hospital systems to deliver oxygen creates engineering and market problems and requires infrastructure that can carry heavy oxygen tanks to deliver oxygen.

Once the supply of oxygen, the equipment should be stored on a regular basis and be cleaned to deliver directly to patients directly and take months to be delivered. Medical service workers should be taught to use equipment effectively.

“We have seen so much investment in equipment, but very little investment in how this equipment works continuously,” said Dr. King.

Health facilities, during treatment, also require a pulse reading to control the oxygen level in the screen and monitor. However, in low and medium-lucrative countries, the pulse oximetry in general hospitals in 5 patients in 5 patients are used in 5 patients and is not used in basic medical facilities for the report.

The panel includes statements from patients, families and health workers who struggle with oxygen deficiency. In Sierra Leone, before the COVID-19 pandemic, only one public hospital in the whole country, only one public hospital was an oxygen plant, resulting in thousands of inevitable deaths. In Pakistan, a person with a chronic pulmonary situation, said he was closed to prevent the collapse from the filter of his lungs and avoids the stairs. Friends and the family had to borrow money to cover the 18,000 dollar treatment cost.

In Ethiopia, a doctor was forced to move away from a patient to treat another sick. “It was very heartwarming to decide who lived and who died,” he said.