Directors of Damascus and Mouwasat Hospitals: Medicines for Corona patients are available and there is no shortage of oxygen

Damascus (ST): The Ministry of Health has confirmed the full readiness of its health cadres and hospitals in responding to the Corona pandemic and providing the care needed for Covid 19 patients, especially in  providing oxygen.

According to a ministry statement published today, most hospitals have a backup oxygen tank, and some have oxygen generating stations, and when the demand increases, the immediate response is to secure cylinders or individual oxygen generating devices to ensure that no shortage occurs.

The director of the Damascus Hospital, Dr. Ahmed Abbas, explained that the number of visitors to the hospital with suspected symptoms has increased, confirming the readiness of the health personnel who have had sufficient experience to deal with all cases.

Dr. Abbas said: “We do not suffer from any shortage in oxygen despite the increase in the number of patients admitted to the hospital, and there are no problems in terms of extracting the substance, indicating that the hospital’s oxygen availability system is the liquid oxygen tanks that feed the entire hospital in addition to the generation station.

In a similar statement, the director of the Mouwasat University Hospital, Dr. Essam Zakaria Al-Amin, clarified that despite the severity of the spread of Corona, the hospital did not suffer from any shortage in the availability of oxygen due to the presence of three working systems to secure it, the first is a generating station, the second is warehouses containing 18 tons of liquid oxygen and the third provides oxygen through the cylinders.

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