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Citadel and Citadel Securities and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Increase the Supply of Medical Oxygen in India
Commitments totaling $5.5 million will fund respiratory care efforts and the installation of oxygen generation plants across India
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CHICAGO, May 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The partners of Citadel and Citadel Securities today announced new commitments totaling $5.5 million to increase the supply of medical oxygen in India. As the nation experiences a devastating surge in COVID-19 cases, the demand for medical oxygen has risen to unprecedented levels.
The grants from Citadel and Citadel Securities, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Gates Philanthropy Partners have been directed to the global health nonprofit PATH. They will be used to support near-term, critical needs while also building infrastructure that will be beneficial far beyond the current pandemic.
In 2011, the US Department of Health and Human Services launched the Million Hearts initiative, led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) with participation from a wide range of federal agencies, state governments, clinical consortia, community and professional organizations, and other partners. The goal of the initiative was to prevent 1 million myocardial infarctions and strokes over 5 years.
To achieve this goal, community-wide preventive interventions were to reduce tobacco use and sodium consumption and eliminate artificial
trans fats from the food supply. In clinical care, the initiative focused on improving the “ABCS”: aspirin use, blood pressure control, cholesterol management, and smoking cessation treatment. A second phase, Million Hearts 2022, aims to reduce tobacco use, sodium intake, and physical inactivity by 20%; achieve 80% performance on the ABCS and 70% participation in cardiac rehabilitatio