Targets for universal access, national roadmaps and more affordable and accessible care are vital to help fill the medical oxygen gap affecting more than half of the world's population, according to a ...

Six out of every ten people globally lack access to safe medical oxygen, resulting in hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths each year and reducing quality of life for millions more, an ...

Given the coronavirus outbreak worldwide, demand for vital medical equipment and supplies has increased by leaps and bounds. Some companies that manufacture medical oxygen products are gearing up to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Christine Ro is a journalist covering science and development. As with so much of the pandemic, the widely varying levels of ...

Medical oxygen in India has been in severe shortage as the country grapples with a deadly second wave of the pandemic. But bureaucratic hurdles are delaying delivery ...

In this study, the researchers said that 82 per cent of patients worldwide requiring medical oxygen live in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). (Image Credits: Freepik) A new study has revealed ...

Oxygen therapy is widely used in the management of a number of chronic and acute health conditions. The therapy may be used in a hospital setting or pre-hospital setting (e.g. in the ambulance) to ...

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of people in poor nations died literally gasping for breath, even in hospitals. What they lacked was medical oxygen, which is in short supply in much ...

The report, by the Lancet Global Health Commission on Medical Oxygen Security, is the world's first estimate of how unequally medical oxygen is distributed, the gaps in coverage of patients in need, ...

India is currently facing a medical oxygen shortage due to an unprecedented surge in COVID-19 cases. The supply of medical oxygen is extremely important for severe COVID-19 patients as one of the most ...