Peter Uzoho
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has commended Total Exploration and Production Nigeria Limited, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and their operating partners, Sapetro, CNOOC, and Prime, over their donation of a medical oxygen plant to the state.
Sanwo-Olu gave the commendation while inaugurating the facility sited at the Gbagada General Hospital, Gbagada, Lagos State.
He said the plant which has the capacity to produce 100 bottles of oxygen per day was the biggest of such plant to be inaugurated in the state.
Sanwo-Olu said: “I also want to commend Total/NNPC and their partners for putting together this Oxygen plant here. I have been informed that this facility has the capacity to produce a hundred bottles of oxygen per day. It is much bigger than the one commissioned earlier on.
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Views: Visits 13 Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State. By Sebastine Obasi Residents of Lagos, Nigeria will no longer grapple with the dearth of medical oxygen in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, as Total/NNPC and their partners, Sapetro, CNOOC, and Prime 130 have built a medical oxygen plant for the State. Commissioning the facility at the Gbagada General Hospital, Gbagada, Lagos, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu stated that Total and partners should be commended for building such facility that has the capacity to produce hundred bottles of oxygen per day, noting that it was the biggest of such plant to be commissioned in the State. “I also want to commend Total/NNPC and their partners for putting together this Oxygen plant here. I have been informed that this facility has the capacity to produce hundred bottles of oxygen per day.
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By Chioma Obinna
There is a surge in the demand for medical oxygen as Nigeria is faced with an onslaught of COVID-19 cases which have skyrocketed to over 1,000 infections in the last few weeks.
Compared to the first wave of COVID-19 when only a few patients had severe cases, almost 100 percent of patients are currently on oxygen, struggling to pull through.
Findings by Sunday Vanguard showed that no day passes without admission of patients needing oxygen across Covid-19 treatment centres nationwide.