Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the WHO (World Health Organization) has mobilized to provide oxygen concentrators to countries that need them most. These concentrators provide respiratory assistance to covid-19 patients when they are in respiratory distress but also support all other patients in need. Despite the efforts made so far to make them available, the world still faces the challenge of producing approximately 620,000 cubic meters per day, or approximately 88,000 large cylinders. It is to meet these global challenges that the WHO will provide the DRC with a total of three medical units, notably in Kinshasa at the Kinshasa University Clinics and the Sino-Congolese Friendship Hospital, and then in Goma at the Provincial General Hospital. It should also be noted that this medical oxygen is produced using oxygen concentrators whose role is to extract and purify oxygen from the air. The DRC is thus inaugurating the first medical oxygen production unit built with the support of the WHO.

This first endowment made to the University Clinics of Kinshasa (CUK) took place during a ceremony chaired by His Excellency Jean-Jacques Mbungani, Minister of Health Public, Hygiene and Prevention of the DRC in the presence of the WHO office manager in the DRC on Dr. Amédée Prosper DjiguimdéThe production unit proposed by the WHO to the CUK will be capable of filling 88 oxygen cylinders of 47.2 liters (content of 6.8 cubic meters per cylinder) every 24 hours with a purity of 96%. This unit consists of an air compressor, an air dryer, an air tank, an oxygen generator, a booster as well as a filling station capable of filling 20 cylinders at a time and two oxygen tanks (1000 and 2000L) allowing the storage of a total of 3000L of oxygen.

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