Dear Editor
The article is critical and enlightening, and it does recognize the medical oxygen gap that still exists in treating patients despite the excellent work done by the Oxygen Task Force.
The solution is not only looking at increasing supply but decreasing demand.
Oxygen Task Force and every organization in the world want to solve the problem of the oxygen supply gap based on increasing supply; how about decreasing demand? Patients only take Oxygen into their lungs during inhalation, so if you supply Oxygen with a constant flow to their noses or faces, Oxygen is wasted to the ambient during the exhalation phase, which lasts twice the inspiration. If our method is adopted, oxygen production supplied to patients will last three times more because every patient will inhale the Oxygen only during inhalation and none during exhalation; it will save 2/3 of the cylinder. We have proof in several Field Tets, pilot, and medical studies performed in Bolivia and Colombia, which we will be glad to share with you as the new disruptive simple technology for the global supply of medical Oxygen that, in combination with the existing technologies will have an impact in our goals to decrease the oxygen gap. https://www.oxfocorp.com/
Save the Children, CHAI and UNICEF are calling on donors and governments to invest in oxygen systems in lower- and middle-income countries, including in Africa and South Asia, to provide a sustainable supply of Oxygen closer to the children who need them. Other similar organizations are doing their best, including The MacArthur Foundation, PATH, Bill & Belinda Gates foundation, Every Breath Counts (EBC), FreO2, etc.
I believe that the money supporting, not only the work of the Oxygen Taskforce but also other organizations, is being spent on increasing the supply of Oxygen, but hopefully, shortly, we will see more investment and collaboration in new technologies to decrease demand to ensure countries have access to adequate, affordable oxygen solutions.
Carlos Bazoberry, MD
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Boston, Massachusetts
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