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Abstract

The rapid spread of COVID-19 around the world has exposed some long-standing deficiencies in health systems, particularly in environments with low financial and medical resources. Most patients ill with COVID-19 require oxygen and supportive therapy for survival as there remains no conclusively established curative therapy. Following a number of critical research work and drawing from a millennia-long evolution of medical practice, respiratory support has been identified as a paramount intervention to ensure lives are saved when supportive care is required, and oxygen is an essential commodity to achieve this. This letter focuses on the numerous means for oxygen delivery to health facilities and in turn the end users and expands on the importance of innovation to improve oxygen supply. We describe a community distribution system with a telemedicine structure that can be leveraged for oxygen delivery.

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Title
Community distribution of oxygen: a unique COVID-19 intervention
Author
Nelson Ashinedu Ukor; Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi; Uwizeyimana, Theogene  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Ahmadi, Attaullah; Ekwebelem, Osmond C; Fadele, Precious; Lucero-Prisno, Don Eliseo, III
Pages
1-3
Section
Letter to the Editor
Publication year
2021
Publication date
2021
Publisher
BioMed Central
ISSN
13488945
e-ISSN
13494147
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2546409989
Copyright
© 2021. This work is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.