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COVID has increased awareness about the importance of oxygen and has generated strong interest from governments, funders and other influential stakeholders to significantly and sustainably increase access, including to rural areas.
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Oxygen Lifeline Amidst Instability in Ethiopia
With escalating internal conflicts impacting Ethiopia, ensuring access to critical healthcare resources has become an immense challenge. Yet, our Ethiopian partner, Keamed, demonstrates unwavering commitment by maintaining oxygen supply to surrounding communities while also ensuring the safety of the team. Conflict forced oxygen plant shutdowns in both Debre Berhan and Debre Markos for some days, […]
New Milestone with 10th Plant in Nigeria
In November 2023, Oxygen Hub proudly opened its 10th plant in Nigeria, this time in collaboration with HealthOps International in Enugu. This marks a significant achievement in our mission to bring life-saving oxygen access to underserved communities across Africa. The partnership with HealthOps, a well-established firm specializing in healthcare management and investment, has been in […]
How the pandemic is propelling innovators to bridge healthcare gaps in emerging markets
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 […]
Oxygen plant launched in Nasarawa
An oxygen plant (AirCo) with a capacity of 700 cubic metres daily production to save lives and meet the medical needs of Nigerians has been launched in Nasarawa State. The plant was launched by Lifebank Nigeria, a health facility that delivers medical supplies to hospitals in Africa using technology and multi modal distribution platform. Read […]
Lifebank Launches 700 Cubic Metres Oxygen Plant in Nasarawa
Lifebank Nigeria has launched a 700 cubic metres per day oxygen production plant at Orozo in Nasarawa named “AirCo by Lifebank” to bridge the oxygen gap being experienced nationwide. The AirCo by Lifebank oxygen plant in Nasarawa State is Lifebank Nigeria first oxygen plant in partnership with Oxygen Hub, a sub-saharan company. Speaking to journalists […]
Lifebank aims to scale up oxygen supply as it unveils ‘AirCO’
The AirCo initiative will be launched by the commissioner for Health, Nasarawa state, and key stakeholders in the medical, humanitarian, and other fields. AirCo is a tech and data-driven oxygen plant using technology to supply oxygen for the most vulnerable in Nasarawa and the North Central. Read more…
Oxygen Hub opens debut plant in Nigeria
Africa-based social enterprise, Oxygen Hub, is building 100 medical oxygen producing plants in Africa and one of the first three plants earmarked for Nigeria will open on Tuesday, July 13, in Nasarawa State. The mission of Oxygen Hub, which is supported by leading impact organizations including Skoll Foundation and ELMA Philanthropies, is to close the […]
Isiaku and Oxygen Hub begin a new plant operation in Anambra
History was made in Nimo, Anambra State, when Isiaku medical oxygen plant was launched on June 22, 2022, with foreign partners from the United States of America, adjudged to be the second of its kind in Nigeria and the first collaboration in the South East region. While unveiling the project, Governor Charles Soludo, who commended the […]
Topcare and Oxygen Hub launch a plant in Nakuru amid rising Covid cases
The Covid-19 pandemic significantly increased the number of patients in need of medical oxygen in hospitals. Consequently, this laid bare the oxygen gap that existed in the country in both the private and public sector. Kenya has continued to scale up medical oxygen availability to increase its accessibility and meet the growing demand. Read more…