The WHO hosted its first Road to Oxygen Access meeting from May 14–16, 2024 in Dakar, Senegal. This meeting brought together WHO Member States, UN agencies, nongovernmental organizations, donors, and academic professionals to discuss medical oxygen access and oxygen ecosystems worldwide.
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Côte d’Ivoire suffered from oxygen shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic. To address this gap, the MOH and EpiC recently launched an initiative to expand access to medical oxygen in seven hospitals across the country.
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EpiC’s investment in oxygen-producing PSA technology will ensure access to medical oxygen, especially in regions far from Sri Lanka’s centrally located oxygen manufacturing facilities.
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“Do you remember a year ago, when all we had was a WhatsApp group to ask questions of each other and send pictures of the oxygen purities?” Rodrigo Romero, head of the Paraguay Ministry of Health´s Medical Gas Department offered this poignant reflection during the opening remarks of an event celebrating the launch, training, and validation of the country’s first digital oxygen maintenance tracking system that the Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) project hosted in Paraguay in March.
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