KABUL (MoPH) has decided to purchase 500 oxygen producing machines from China and announced compelling all local companies to provide oxygen to Covid-19 hospitals.
Public Health Minister Ahmad Jawad Usmani said revealed this during a meeting with Kabul governor and Wolesi Jirga members. He said the oxygen supply issue to Covid-19 hospitals had been totally addressed.
Referring to the purchase of 500 small oxygen producing machines from China in near future, the minister said: “The Ministry of Defence provided 200 oxygen cylinders, UNICEF provided 50 small oxygen producing machines to the ministry.”
Usmani said during his visit to provinces in recent days, he monitored the situation closely and thought about solution to problems Covid-19 patients faced.
Kabul Governor Mohammad Yaqoub Haidari said: “It is shameful for a country that its citizens are dying due to the shortage of oxygen.”
He regretted that in the past 18 years, shortcomings in the health sector could not be addressed and now it was not possible to address them in months.
Haidari, who is member of the Committee Coronavirus, pledged to provide fund to the health ministry to meet its needs.
The committee has 300 million afghani fund to provide support to the country’s health sector to deal with Covid-19.
Wolesi Jirga Member Abdul Qadir Qalatwal said the lower house was monitoring government’s expenses on fighting the coronavirus.
Earlier, Public Health Ministry Spokesperson Akmal Samsour said that contracts had been inked with six companies for the supply of oxygen to hospitals treating Covid-19 patients.
He said due to strict monitoring the issue of oxygen supply to hospitals was solved, adding that problem emerged in the process after laziness in the monitoring of oxygen supply process.
Kabul residents said no attention was being paid to coronavirus patients in the public hospitals.
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