{"id":31571,"date":"2021-04-29T10:50:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T01:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/29\/explainer-why-is-getting-medical-oxygen-for-covid-patients-in-some-countries-so-difficult"},"modified":"2021-04-29T10:50:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T01:50:21","slug":"explainer-why-is-getting-medical-oxygen-for-covid-patients-in-some-countries-so-difficult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31571","title":{"rendered":"Explainer: why is getting medical oxygen for Covid patients in some countries so difficult?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As India\u2019s hospitals struggle to keep pace with demand, the pandemic has exposed global market failures, lack of knowledge and anticipation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New waves of the Covid-19 pandemic in countries, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/28\/covid-india-suffers-worst-day-of-pandemic-with-record-number-of-cases-and-deaths\">such as India<\/a> and Kenya have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-star.co.ke\/news\/2021-04-08-oxygen-shortage-blamed-on-poor-planning-selfishness\/\">exposed<\/a> the poor management of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tv-shows\/the-debate\/20210427-out-of-control-india-desperate-for-oxygen-as-covid-19-cases-surge\">oxygen<\/a> supplies. Prof Trevor Duke, <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.who.int\/iris\/bitstream\/handle\/10665\/204584\/9789241549554_eng.pdf;jsessionid=0818418530145E66E5959C2C9F7C5657?sequence=1\">editor of the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines<\/a> on oxygen therapy for children, answered questions on what countries with limited resources can do to secure better supplies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/29\/explainer-why-is-getting-medical-oxygen-for-covid-patients-in-some-countries-so-difficult\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As India\u2019s hospitals struggle to keep pace with demand, the pandemic has exposed global market failures, lack of knowledge and anticipationCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew waves of the Covid-19 pandemic in countries, such&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,62,299,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-india","category-science","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31572,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31571\/revisions\/31572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}