An article published this week in The Lancet medical journal found that more than half of the world’s population lacks access to safe and affordable medical oxygen services, and most people outside of ...

Medical workers offload cylinders of oxygen at the Donka public hospital where coronavirus patients are treated in Conakry, Guinea. AP CONAKRY, Guinea — Guinea’s best hope for coronavirus patients ...

As Covid-19 cases began spiking last month, Mara Bryant and her hospital staff had to scramble to ensure enough oxygen was available. As the number of patients at Adventist Health White Memorial ...

Six out of every ten people globally lack access to safe medical oxygen, resulting in hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths each year and reducing quality of life for millions more, an ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Christine Ro is a journalist covering science and development. As with so much of the pandemic, the widely varying levels of ...

"We burn through oxygen every day," a New York doctor said. Hospitals across the U.S. battling the coronavirus have been consistently reporting shortages of personal protective gear, ventilators and ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — 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 ...

A Covid-19 patient on oxygen support waits outside a New Delhi hospital for admission amid a shortage of beds. But one of the country’s largest medical oxygen companies says the reason for the ...

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of people in poor nations died literally gasping for breath, even in hospitals. What they lacked was medical oxygen, which is in short supply in much ...

In Guinea, oxygen is a costly challenge for government-funded medical facilities such as the Donka public hospital in the capital, Conakry. Instead of the new plant piping oxygen directly to beds, a ...