we humans need oxygen to live we read this in school but we learned it during this pandemic in India we saw people battling to breed oxygen demand shot up with a sudden surge in cases last year this happened in the United States and Europe to the sudden demand and now it is happening in many more countries they're recording High death rates due to oxygen shortage as we speak at least 19 countries one night
19 countries are suffering oxygen shortage this list includes Argentina Colombia Iran Nepal the Philippines Malaysia Thailand Pakistan Costa Rica and South Africa the list has been put together by the Bureau of investigative journalism it says that the situation in these countries has been exacerbated because of low vaccination rates in Nepal the demand for oxygen has risen 100 times between the months of March and may climbers were being asked to bring back there empty oxygen tanks from Mount Everest and they could be refilled and used in hospitals in Sri Lanka the demand for oxygen has risen seven times in Pakistan oxygen vendors have doubled their prices for the last month the crisis goes beyond South Asia and fact in Laos for example there is a two hundred fold increase in the demand for oxygen according to the Bureau of investigative journalism there are at least 30 countries that currently need twice as much oxygen as they did in
crazy to this list includes Fiji Vietnam Afghanistan Cambodia Mongolia Angola and Kyrgyzstan the question is does the world have enough oxygen to cater to this Rising demand medical oxygen makes up for just one percent of global liquid oxygen production the remaining 99% is used in Industries the likes of mining petrochemicals Aeronautics and water treatment over the last few months countries have asked oxygen companies to divert their supplies to hospitals even if more countries follow suit the ones most in need will still not have enough oxygen to cater to the needs of the hospitals
he rocks gas company for example can produce only a third of what the country is covered patients need Columbia less than 2/3 Peru only 80% these are just a few of the many examples but you know what they tell us the more countries are staring at a repeat of what happened in India and elsewhere a sudden surge in cases made worse by crippling shortages in fact something very