DAKAR, Senegal — A crisis over the supply of medical oxygen for coronavirus patients has struck nations in Africa and Latin America, where warnings went unheeded at the start of the pandemic and ...

Compressed medical gases are gases and liquids in pressurized cylinders administered for different purposes. They can be used for anesthesia, patient respiration or powering surgical tools. Handling ...

JAKARTA, July 26 (Reuters) - Muhammad Ihsan gratefully lugs an oxygen cylinder into a small office in Jakarta's outskirts, lining the breathing equipment up with scores of others against a wall. Ihsan ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed a critical gap in the world’s oxygen supply that’s leading to a million preventable deaths a year, health leaders said Thursday during a panel hosted by the Murdoch ...

Hospital wards across Uganda are filling with COVID-19 patients as the country faces an aggressive surge in cases. One of the biggest issues have: a serious shortage of oxygen. Over the last month, ...

After almost two weeks in the hospital battling COVID-19, Gerardo Mercado was ready to go home. There was just one problem: He couldn’t get portable oxygen cylinders to aid his recovery there.

Hospitals battling a furious Covid-19 surge around the country have exhausted their supplies of oxygen cylinders, necessary to help patients deal with the oxygen depletion caused by the virus. The ...