COVID-19: NAF BEGINS DISTRIBUTION OF OXYGEN TO ISOLATION CENTRES
The Nigerian Air Force has commenced the distribution of Oxygen Plant to coronavirus isolation centres in the country.
NAF stated that the oxygen Plants would be shared to selected hospitals as part of responses to curtail the spread of has coronavirus in Nigeria.
This was disclosed by
AVM OA Adesanya, a NAF Defence Attache via a tweet.
“I’m glad to note that the Nigerian Air Force has started distributing the oxygen being produced at its Liquid Oxygen Plant to isolation centres and designated hospitals across the country in support of the national response to COVID-19 pandemic,”
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), oxygen therapy is the major treatment intervention for patients with severe cases.
It, therefore, advised all countries with cases to “work to optimise the availability of pulse oximeters and medical oxygen systems”.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said as of Sunday night that 85 patients have been discharged from amongst the over 300 confirmed cases in Nigeria.
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