Critical care nurse, Emily Chepng’eno fits a ventilator mask during a simulation to demonstrate delivery of medical oxygen to the Intensive Care Unit following the installation of a modern Oxygen plant at the Metropolitan Hospital in Kenya’s capital Nairobi on May 5, 2021. At the peak of Kenya’s third wave of COVID-19 in March, hospitals — buckling under the strain of the virus — saw their oxygen reserves fizzle out.
In April Kenya registered a record 571 deaths, and the health ministry warned hospitals were overrun with fewer than 300 patients in the Intensive Care Unit and fewer than 2,000 hospitalised countrywide.A technician installs the final phase of a domestic oxygen plant at Metropolitan Hospital in Kenya’s capital Nairobi on May 12, 2021. “The reserve dwindled, it decreased to the point where we were collecting oxygen 24/7,” recalled Gakombe.
The oxygen is “purified and dried to at least a purity level of 95 percent, which is actually the requirement by the World Health Organization”. “We have received several requests for different facilities,” said Jeremy Gitau, co-founder of the Emergency Medicine Kenya Foundation, which helps Kenyan hospitals equip themselves with oxygen distribution systems.
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