ImpactAlpha, October 25, 2021 – From Lombardy, Italy and Queens, New York to Jakarta, Indonesia and Delhi, India, the desperate scramble for oxygen has been a recurring feature of every coronavirus surge.
The problem is even more acute in low-resource settings without the equipment and technical skills to concentrate the life-giving gas for medical use. The August earthquake that devastated southwest Haiti destroyed the area’s only medical oxygen plant just as COVID-19 sent demand soaring.
Those scenes have spurred local entrepreneurs in Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria…