By the end of June 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) had issued a warning that hospitals were facing a shortage of oxygen concentrators in the face of a Covid-19 pandemic that continued to unfold in different regions around the world.
When Europe and North America were largely the epicentre for the pandemic in the month of March and April, the talk was understandably of the challenges being faced in bulk liquid supply of medical oxygen to hospitals and makeshift field hospitals. The gases industry had risen to the challenge of being on the frontline with remarkable agility and speed, the tales of which were regularly regaled online and in print by gasworld82.
The unsung heroes of this effort must not be forgotten, those who continued to fill and maintain cylinders and cylinder supplies during lockdowns, those who continued to operate oxygen plants, deliver liquid and cylinders to hospitals, maintain hospital systems and maintain supplies to patients in their own homes, whether via liquid, gas cylinders or concentrators.
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