2025 has been an eventful year for South Africa’s medical oxygen sector. Following the collapse of the previous national oxygen plant tender – a process dogged by allegations of fraud, inflated costs and irregular procurement – the country relaunched the programme under far stricter oversight.
For O2Africa, which we spoke to about the fallout, the past twelve months have brought one of its most active periods yet, both in public health and across the wider industrial gases market.
A major turning point came when the tender was split in two. The Western Cape Province opted to run its own process for ten pressure swing adsorption (PSA) oxygen plants across five hospitals. O2Africa was awarded the contract and is now building all ten systems.
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