There is a surge in the demand for medical oxygen as Nigeria is faced with an onslaught of COVID-19 cases which have skyrocketed to over 1,000 infections in the last few weeks.
Compared to the first wave of COVID-19 when only a few patients had severe cases, almost 100 percent of patients are currently on oxygen, struggling to pull through.
Findings by Sunday Vanguard showed that no day passes without admission of patients needing oxygen across Covid-19 treatment centres nationwide. Sadly, in a resource-poor country like Nigeria where oxygen remained a luxury even before the outbreak of coronavirus, most of the hospitals are seriously overstretched and struggling to cope.