After India: The countries on the brink of another Covid oxygen crisis mg.co.za - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mg.co.za Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
03 May 2021
India is facing a devastating COVID-19 outbreak. Having successfully managed the first pandemic wave in 2020, the country is now reeling from the gravity of a deadly second wave that is infecting over 300,000 people every single day. Heartbreaking scenes of patients lying outside hospitals on stretchers or inside cars due to a lack of beds have circulated around the world, and a severe scarcity of oxygen is contributing to a death toll that is running sky-high. The last 24 hours alone (3 May) saw 392,000 new cases and 3,689 deaths, according to the WHO.
As part of the Global Fund’s COVID-19 Response Mechanism 2021, the Global Fund is urgently processing a fast-track funding application from India’s Country Coordinating Mechanism to purchase oxygen concentrators and to finance Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) oxygen plants to help meet the medium-term needs for medical oxygen. We are working closely with the Government of India and national partners to identify soluti
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The MEP Lung Health Group: Raising awareness of respiratory diseases across Europe
The group, launched last October, aims to stimulate debate and raise awareness of the risk factors and the complications of respiratory diseases, explains co-chair Željana Zovko.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has shown EU Member States what the Union can achieve with an enhanced and coordinated response. This momentum should now be used to transpose the lessons learned to other health-related issues and to develop long-term strategies.
Before the pandemic, Europe registered over 600,000 deaths a year due to respiratory diseases, while lung cancer is the third-most common type of newly diagnosed cancer on our continent. Both COVID-related and non COVID-related health problems need greater attention, improved monitoring and actions to enhance prevention and treatment.