• Reliance On Cylinders For Oxygen Responsible For Shortage – Okwesil • Health Institutions Depending On Vendors
With social distancing letup among Nigerians giving cause for concern, and generating anxiety, as well as the mutated form of COVID-19 being deadlier and more easily transmitted, the shortage of medical oxygen in hospitals and isolation centres across the country could be shot up.
The warning dovetailed reported acute shortage of oxygen at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital , and the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital , Enugu. “The import is that most patients having let down their guard will present in an emergency situation, since the health facilities that are just coping in stable times are more likely to be stretched with a sudden burst of the virus in the state,” he said. He said it was still a challenge to determine the exact quantity of oxygen needed to treat critical cases in the state since most cases are hardly presented to hospitals, and the reliance on vendors for the supply of the products when needed.
“The COVID-19 pandemic is equally an opportunity to put in place processes to strengthen the health sector in the country, through the provision of loans and credit facilities. The development of the health bank is just the tonic that we need to improve the poor health indices in the country, and build our economy by retaining money spent on medical tourism.
“The way out will be for the governments to take out projects to ensure that major teaching hospitals and federal medical centres have oxygen generating plants. This is something you generate from air. What will cost money is the plant itself. There are also oxygen concentrators which are simple machines that can attract air and then you can use them by the ward of the patient’s bed side”.
The state Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, while activating the plant said that the deployment and activation of the oxygen plant was in furtherance of the commitment of the state government to deploy effective response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “This is particularly useful for patients with comorbidities who require prompt oxygen for survival. Oxygen from the plant will be very helpful for effective treatment due to proximity of the plant which serves as source.“This collaboration between the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a good example of collaboration between government and the private sector,” he said.
if you are sincerely in need of oxygen, 'Ask God'. He will give you in abundance.
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