Shortage of oxygen cylinders hardens facing Covid-19 in Syria’s Hasakah
HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – The shortage of filled oxygen cylinders in Hasakah-based unique station has increased the difficulty to face the spread of coronavirus pandemic in northeast Syria.
“The only center designated to fill the oxygen concentrators has become very old and this caused a retreat in the number of filled oxygen concentrators,” Siham Mella, the spokeswoman of the medical committee in Hasakah region said on Monday.
“The shortage of oxygen concentrators have increased the difficulty to combat the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic,” she added.
The station in Hasakah-based Public Hospital currently fills 60 cylinders with oxygen every 24 hours. Once it used to fill 100 oxygen cylinders per day.
There are 125 available oxygen concentrators in Hasakah city distributed among the Covid-19 Hospital in Nashwa neighborhood, a quarantine ward located in the Public Hospital, and in the Kurdish Red Crescent (KRC) center, according to Mella.
The number of oxygen cylinders depends on the number of Covid-19 related infections.
The chart showed a relatively stable number of confirmed COVID-19cases with an average of 30 new cases per day during the last period, according to Mella.
The Health Board of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) reported 16 coronavirus-related deaths, 238 infections and 13 recoveries in the last statistic.