Hospitals run out of oxygen
MASERU-Lesotho is battling a serious shortage of oxygen leading to a surge in Covid-19 deaths,
thepost heard this week.
That is according to the deputy spokesman for the Coalition of Health Professionals (CPH) Dr Mojakisane Ramafikeng
Dr Ramafikeng told thepost yesterday that “for a long time we have been complaining and advising the government to make oxygen available”.
“We are still complaining of a lack of oxygen even today,” Dr Ramafikeng said, adding that where he works at the Queen ’Mamohato Memorial Hospital “we do not have that problem here”.
“But, professionals from different hospitals countrywide are complaining as we are talking now that there is a dire lack of oxygen and people are dying because of that,” he said.
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