Leaders have not done nearly enough to prepare for pandemic threats leaving around eight billion people vulnerable, according to a new report.
Continued investment and technical support for the expansion, operation and maintenance of oxygen infrastructure are still urgently needed to improve overall health outcomes and achieve universal health coverage, according to Unitaid.
I think what alarmed or resonated with me the most in writing this report, are two key points in the narrative: the fact that we still don’t know what the origins of Covid-19 are; and...
Across the previous eight parts of this series, we have explored the various constructs at play in the global response to the outbreak of Covid-19 and as it developed into a true pandemic, the dire...
If we accept that ongoing dialogue about access to medical oxygen is a pre-requisite during a pandemic, if not a lesson learned from this oxygen crisis of the last 18 months, then might we also...
The Covid-19 pandemic was a preventable disaster with weak links at every point in the chain of preparedness and response.
By the end of June 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) had issued a warning that hospitals were facing a shortage of oxygen concentrators in the face of a Covid-19 pandemic that continued to unfold...
The scene is set from the series so far – healthcare systems in a complex balancing act, political distractions at play, a new virus emerging from origins evidently unknown, and the understanding of a century...
If the world had never been more empowered and connected as we entered 2020, from the freedoms and benefits of globalisation to the immersive and rapidly advancing digital technologies that enabled our social constructs, then...
From the moment the SARS-CoV-2 virus first began to proliferate out of control in China and was subsequently recognised as a pandemic in official terms by the World Health Organization on 11th March 2020, it...
