BBC World News graph built from PATH data, showing the urgent need for medical oxygen in India.
The shortage of this lifesaving medical supply, and a steep rise in new variants of COVID-19 have resulted in a death rate that has grown 2,000 percent in two months. We are responding urgently to the global oxygen crisis and we need your help. Please donate today.
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PATH teams are hard at work in India and across Asia and Africa on key issues like access to oxygen, vaccination, testing, and more. With funding from donors like you, we can do even more to meet the unprecedented, urgent needs these communities are facing in this pandemic.
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PATH India staff assess oxygen equipment in Karnataka as part of an upgrade to the hospital's oxygen generation capacity.
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In Zambia, PATH scientists Mulenga Mwenda-Chimfwembe and Brenda Mambwe prepare to test samples for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA.
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COVID-19 samples awaiting analysis at the PATH Seattle laboratory. The PATH Covid-19 biorepository is a global resource for diagnostics developers.
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In the first weeks of the pandemic PATH's Seattle engineering shop used donations to accelerate design and production of personal protective equipment for healthcare workers and shared the open-source designs with the global maker community.
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The interactive Global Oxygen Needs Tracker, developed by PATH, has become a critical tool for planners, advocates, and journalists, and has been featured in BBC World and other media. (Screenshot, view the tracker at www.path.org/oxygen-needs-tracker)
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Top photo: Relatives of COVID-19 patients wait to fill oxygen cylinders in Delhi, India, on Tuesday April 22, 2021. Credit: iStock/Ishant Kumar.
Graphic: BBC World chart based on PATH Oxygen Needs Tracker data. Credit: BBC.
Bottom photo: PATH staff meet with hospital leaders in Karnataka to assess the site's oxygen generation and systems, in advance of upgrades. Credit: PATH.