Oxygen Supply of Skims Soura Before and After COVID-19 Pandemic; Skims Experience and Lessons Learnt

Since more than a century ago, oxygen therapy has been a standard of care and a critical part of hospital infrastructure. The majority of hypoxemic hospital patients will not receive oxygen, increasing their risk of dying, because access to oxygen therapy is restricted in many low-resource settings. The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has exposed the size of this "oxygen gap" and sparked long overdue attention in enhancing oxygen delivery systems. 20% of COVID-19 patients need to be admitted to the hospital for oxygen therapy (with or without additional respiratory assistance). Although intensive care unit and ventilator capacity have received a lot of attention, enhancing fundamental hospital oxygen systems must come first. We saw during COVID-19 Pandemic how much shortage of oxygen hospital had to face because this hospital did not build systems to produce or store oxygen. Increasing indigenous oxygen generating capacity of hospital is need of hour.