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Direct Relief Donates $530,000 to Bring Oxygen to Covid-Stricken City in the Brazilian Amazon
Direct Relief made the grant to the Foundation for Amazon Sustainability to purchase an estimated 350 oxygen concentrators. The donation was facilitated by the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force and Health Bridges International.
Witoto indigenous tribe homes in the Parque das Tribos neighborhood of Manaus, Brazil. Severe oxygen shortages at hospitals in Brazil s Amazon prompted local authorities to impose a curfew and airlift patients to other states to deal with the onslaught of a second coronavirus wave. Photographer: Jonne Roriz/Bloomberg via Getty Images
The oxygen needed to keep Covid-19 patients alive has been in short supply around the world. Combine the shortage with a surging virus in an isolated region with limited access to medical resources, and you have a situation like the one in the Brazilian state of Amazonas.