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Concerns have been raised about a potential oxygen shortage amid South Africa’s third wave of Covid-19 infections, but suppliers believe they will cope.
A few weeks after the third wave of COVID-19 infections was confirmed in South Africa, the number of daily infections has again begun to steadily rise. During earlier waves last year many public and private hospitals experienced severe shortages in their oxygen supplies. Now, amongst increasing concerns that oxygen will again begin to run dry, […]
Many public and private hospitals experienced critical oxygen shortages earlier in 2020, but suppliers say that lessons learnt during the second wave have helped increase capacity to meet demand in.
Industrial users in SA are paying up to 30 times the normal price for oxygen Business Insider SA
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Industrial users in South Africa are paying vast markups for scarce oxygen, a big industry survey has found.
With hospitals using unprecedented levels of oxygen, all available output and logistics capability has turned to keeping them in stock.
The result has been cancelled projects, and careful rationing, says the Steel and Engineering Federation of South Africa, with pain felt almost everywhere.
The industrial users aren t complaining, but they can t wait for Covid-19 vaccines to make a difference either.
Oxygen is in such short supply in South Africa that some companies are paying 30 times the usual going rate to keep critical equipment going and projects on track, an industry body said on Thursday.