Currently, the production of Tunisian companies is no longer sufficient to meet the considerable increase in the consumption of medical oxygen. If for the moment, medical oxygen is not lacking in Tunisia to fight against respiratory insufficiencies caused by Covid-19, the authorities are starting to worry.
Indeed, Tunisia has turned to the import of medical oxygen, in particular from Algeria to support its reserves, especially since the local market is no longer able to meet demand.
The director of health structures at the Ministry of Health, Nawfal Somrani, warned yesterday, Friday, April 30, that “Tunisians risk being faced with an unprecedented health disaster if Tunisia will be unable to obtain supplies from it. foreign after the exhaustion of available quantities of domestic oxygen production.
In a statement given to the TAP agency, the official warned that hospitals are facing a difficult situation due to high oxygen consumption in response to the growing demand for the care of patients with the disease of Covid-19, noting that private oxygen providers have reached their maximum production.
He said these suppliers recently started importing oxygen from abroad for sale to the health ministry, stressing that this situation required the urgent acquisition of an amount of oxygen from Algeria via a Tunisian supplier.
Oxygen shortage in DR Congo, queues in front of hospitals in Venezuela, price speculation in Peru, the black market in Brazil. For weeks, oxygen, vital to save Covid patients in respiratory distress, has been lacking in many so-called “low-income or middle-income” countries, especially in Latin America and Africa, but also in India, according to the report. ‘WHO.
