Date
29 April 2021
Coronavirus: cómo funciona el mercado del oxígeno y qué se puede hacer para evitar su escasez en medio de la pandemia
Barría investigates the grave shortage of medical oxygen in low- and middle-income countries, focusing on the current crises in India and Latin America. The author examines the reasons for the shortage — including the complicated production, transportation, and distribution of the essential medicine — and the fact that only three companies produce nearly 70% of the world's medical oxygen.
Jayasree K. Iyer, Executive Director of the Access to Medicine Foundation, is quoted in the article.
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