Workers prepare oxygen cylinders for coronavirus disease patients inside the Sudanese Liquid Gas Company in Khartoum, Sudan, May 5, 2021. Social media is awash with desperate pleas for help from relatives seeking beds, drugs and oxygen cylinders for their loved ones. A government study showed 38% of oxygen cylinders had been smuggled out of the health system for certain patients to use at home. Hussein Malasi, a senior manager at the Sudanese Liquid Gas Company, said that under normal circumstances the firm could produce enough medical oxygen to meet the country's needs, but the country lacks the cylinders needed to transport it. Authorities say they are urgently facilitating imports of about 1,250 more cylinders to meet patient needs.

Source: Standard Digital May 11, 2021 05:37 UTC