Covid-19 field hospital at Bingu Stadium runs out of oxygen
Newly opened Bingu National Stadium Covid-19 field hospital has run out of oxygen supplies, health authorities have confirmed.
Spokesperson for ministry of Health Joshua Malango said the problem has been caused by a mechanical fault at Industrial Gas company in Lilongwe.
Malango said fresh oxygen supply has been ordered from Afrox Limited in Blantyre.
He assured that the situation will return to normal today.
Malango said the situation has been occasioned by a rise in demand for oxygen at the facility.
The field hospital at Bingu National Stadium is four days old in operation and has 300 beds.
The oxygen from Blantyre will be transported by road as it is dangerous to transport it by air which some people suggested to government to use army helicopter.
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It is incredibly ridiculous. The thing has been opened as an intervention to a crisis and it runs out of essential supplies in so short a time, really???
Typical of Tonse Alliance. They do a thing and later start thinking how they did it. It is like buying for yourself a litre of petrol, yet you don’t have a car. Management is simple and straightforward as long as you’re thinking through your ideas, koma awa iiiiiihi!! Nzeru koma kuveka akapoli ndi kusema miyendo ya makanja.
They are still better than DPP in all aspects of leadership…
Oxygen dangerous because of it’s oxidative nature – no helicopter travel no 🔥🔥🔥🔥
This government is a disaster
A field hospital that is 4 days old has run out of oxygen? One wonders whether the tonse government is serious enough to protect its citizens. Poor planning at it’s best!
The whole thing (hospital) ought to have been embedded to kamuzu Central hospital upgrading programme whose level of facilities was going to include oxygen production and medical research facilities……but look!, munasankha stupid stadium ati. Where is football game in this country to justify such huge investments?? Few have become rich upon getting positions in the sports industry and you keep on supporting them eg Walter! nasty level of occurrence. Why force things? Let’s do coffee or cotton growing if we are better in that. Stupid.. that’s why even when one is sick, corrupt, honne, uneducated, etc he is watched, allowed,… Read more »
What an unfortunate scenario. NkhataBay hospital has an in-house oxygen plant. What is beautiful with this white elephant of a hospital is that ward has an oxygen outlet. But the government spent more for less