Low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs) may benefit from skipping traditional, cylinder-heavy oxygen systems and adopt connected, opex-driven models from the outset, according to GCE’s Gareth Pemberton.
Speaking during today’s gasworld webinar, he urged the industry to rethink how medical oxygen networks are built in developing regions. This is because the standard Western model does not work everywhere.
“Taking what we would normally apply to European or US industry and expecting that to work in an LMIC environment is the wrong approach. You need to rethink what the right technology is for that place,” said Pemberton.
He called for industry to rethink which technologies could be used to improve oxygen supply, especially relevant for future pandemics, stating that “appropriate technology is absolutely the key thing here.”
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