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Suwaiba Ali, 35, is ecstatic that her six-month-old baby Abdulrahman can breathe. He was in severe condition due to breathing problems brought on by seizures, and she thinks that the oxygen therapy he received saved him.“I thought I will lose my son because it was difficult for him to breath. But as soon as the
Views: Visits 11 COVID-19 is overwhelming hospital oxygen systems. COVID-19 pneumonia creates breathing difficulties leading to low blood oxygen levels (hypoxaemia). Unable to get enough oxygen to supply vital organs, patients with hypoxaemia are at very high risk of death. Supplemental oxygen is the only treatment. About 20% of COVID-19 patients globally have required hospital admission for oxygen therapy. But oxygen access was already a challenge for hospitals in low- and middle-income countries, particularly smaller facilities in more remote geographies. This is due to three major challenges: low-quality, poorly functioning equipment, with inadequate access to maintenance and repair support; lack of clinical and technical education and protocols; deficiencies in local infrastructure – such as unreliable power supply – and management systems. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed these challenges, leading to horrifying situations, such as the one in India.
Adegoke Falade is Professor of paediatric respiratory medicine at the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, in Ibadan, Nigeria, he also serve as an honorary consultant paediatrician to the University College Hospital in Ibadan. His main interest is in the field of pneumonia and asthma.
As a research clinician at the MRC Laboratories, The Gambia, Professor Falade explored the interface between childhood malnutrition and respiratory diseases. The work in this field culminated in a successfully defended Doctor of Medicine (MD) Thesis in 1999 titled: Pneumonia in Malnourished Gambian Children. Professor Falade was an investigator in Nigeria in the International Study of Asthma and Allergy in Childhood (ISAAC), an international multicentre collaborative epidemiological study. The findings obtained from the Nigerian contribution, is in record, as the first available prevalence data for these diseases in Nigeria.
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The discovery in Africa of a drug-resistant strain of the parasite that causes malaria is a new threat, as the region continues to battle Covid-19.
This is according to a January 2020 article on the Nigeria-based website NPOReports.