Living with oxygen: 5 things to remember
Susanta Deb, former secretary-general of the All India Industrial Gas Manufacturers’ Association, who has been on oxygen support for over a decade, explains the dos and don’ts
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UPDATED: May 25, 2021 16:16 IST
Susanta Deb, former secretary-general of the All India Industrial Gas Manufacturers’ Association, who has been on oxygen support for over a decade
I have been on oxygen support since 2007. It was the pollution in Delhi which got to my lungs. I was hospitalised and put on a ventilator but gradually recovered. Since then, I have been on oxygen at home. You could call this a twist of fate because I had worked for over three decades to develop the oxygen and gases industry in India. In 2015, I switched from using a Continuous Positive Air Pressure or CPAP machine to a Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure or BiPAP machine and also use Oxygen 24x7. This has constrained my activities, though getting oxygen cylinders was never
2021/01/16 01:56 A mortuary worker transports the body of a COVID-19 victim on a stretcher at the morgue of a hospital in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020. Aft. A mortuary worker transports the body of a COVID-19 victim on a stretcher at the morgue of a hospital in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020. After successfully bringing the daily death count down from over 900 in March to single digits by July, Spain has seen a steady uptick that brought deaths back to over 200 a day this month. With that relapse, the body collectors have returned to making the rounds of hospitals, homes and care facilities. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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Investigation by The Guardian has revealed that most government hospitals in the country, especially in Lagos State, have been overwhelmed by upsurge of COVID-19 patients needing intensive care with oxygen support to survive.
The daily rise in cases and deaths in the second wave has made some persons and groups to call for another lockdown, as obtained in United Kingdom (UK) and other climes.
Also, The Guardian investigation revealed that there is alarming demand for oxygen in most public hospitals. It was reliably gathered that the second wave infection has brought about increase demand for oxygen at isolation centres across the country. Three hundred cylinders of gas is said to be used daily in Lagos isolation facilities, with a critical patient needing about six cylinders of oxygen within 24 hours.