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Bookmark or Share- Oxygen - World Health Organization (WHO)Oxygen is a life-saving essential medicine with no substitution. Healthcare professionals use oxygen to treat respiratory illnesses like COVID-19 and pneumonia. Oxygen is also essential for surgery and trauma. Vulnerable groups like older people, pregnant women, young infants and newborns need oxygen therapy regularly.
- Oxygen - World Health Organization (WHO)Oxygen saturation (commonly referred as oxygen level) is a measure of how much haemoglobin is currently bound to oxygen compared to how much haemoglobin remains unbound. Red blood cells contain haemoglobin, and one molecule of haemoglobin can carry up to four molecules of oxygen.
- WHO virtual workshop series for developing national medical oxygen ...WHO is hosting a virtual workshop series to introduce practical and applicable knowledge for Member States and partners to expand on or develop costed national oxygen scale-up plans. Throughout the series, participants will engage with topical and thematic experts and learn from countries with experience in national medical oxygen ecosystem planning. Register hereBackground The WHO Clinical ...
- Oxygen Access Scale Up - World Health Organization (WHO)Medical oxygen is a life-saving medicine that is used to treat many conditions throughout the care continuum. Despite the clinical importance of medical oxygen and inclusion on the WHO Essential Medicines List, it remains a hard to access resource in health care settings.
- The life-saving power of medical oxygen - World Health Organization (WHO)The need for oxygen has increased to 1.1 million cylinders in low to middle-income countries alone. Early in the pandemic, WHO’s first phase approach was to scale up oxygen supply in the most vulnerable countries by procuring and distributing oxygen concentrators and pulse oximeters.
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