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Improving Oxygen Capacity at ITBP Referral Hospital During the Second Wave of COVID-19 Infections in Greater Noida, India: An Operative Targeted Intervention

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2021

Giacomo Stroffolini Open the ORCID record for Giacomo Stroffolini [Opens in a new window] ,
Francesca Cortellaro ,
Mario Raviolo ,
Nicola Tommasoni ,
Manoj Gupta Kumar  and
Claudia Marotta
Giacomo Stroffolini*
Affiliation:
Amedeo di Savoia Hospital, Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
Francesca Cortellaro
Affiliation:
San Carlo Hospital, Emergency Medicine Department, Milan, Italy
Mario Raviolo
Affiliation:
Emergency Medical Team-2, Saluzzo, Italy
Nicola Tommasoni
Affiliation:
Emergency Medical Team-2, Saluzzo, Italy
Manoj Gupta Kumar
Affiliation:
ITBP Hospital, Greater Noida, India
Claudia Marotta
Affiliation:
General Directorate of Disease Prevention, Ministry of Health, Rome, Italy
*
Corresponding author: Giacomo Stroffolini, Email: giacomo.stroffolini@unito.it.
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Abstract

Objectives:

Due to factors that still remain under debate, both social and virological, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has continued to flare up in India, particularly in northern and western areas. This has led to an incidence of approximately 350,000 cases per day and a daily death toll of around 4000 in the weeks between May 1 and 14, 2021. The current pandemic is testing the adaptability of the oxygen distribution and consumption.

Methods:

Following India’s request for support, the European Union (EU) Civil Protection Mechanism coordinated the response agreed by EU Member States providing shipments of oxygen and equipment. In this scenario, our Emergency Medical Team (EMT)-2, based in Italy, organized a cargo and a 12-member team of technicians and medical professionals with the main objective of installing a novel source of oxygen.

Results:

The installation of a Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) oxygen plant provided the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) hospital in Greater Noida, India, with a sustainable solution to combat oxygen shortage in less than 48 h.

Conclusions:

The supply of oxygen could not be deemed a successful intervention without a proper plan to guarantee the rational use of the source so additional training was carried out. Our EMT were among the first responders in mitigating this public health crisis.

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Original Research
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Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 17 , 2023 , e98
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc.

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