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South Africa: Breathing Easier – How Madwaleni Hospital Started Producing Its Own Oxygen

[spotlight] As the strain on the Eastern Cape’s oxygen supply increased during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, health authorities often had to intervene and use their own trucks to ferry oxygen cylinders to deep rural areas – often over long distances and on bad roads. As elsewhere, healthcare workers at the Madwaleni District Hospital, located in the province’s rural Amathole District, felt the pressure as oxygen supplies ran low.

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