Oxygen to Save Lives

This agreement seeks to ensure the provision of medicinal oxygen within the framework of comprehensive care, especially for people affected by COVID 19, through a program that articulates the various actors who intervene directly and indirectly in the provision of health services in the defined territories. This program mobilizes $ 1 million dollars and integrates 12 health establishments in 9 provinces of Ecuador.

HOW DO WE CONTRIBUTE?

• Improve the capacity to provide oxygen therapy in selected health facilities, reducing the demand for hospitalization.
• Support the proper use of oxygen therapy at home through the formulation of protocols, the provision of oxygen resources, and adequate guidance and monitoring.
• Promote a better integrated and more coordinated oxygen ecosystem, adequately addressing the estimation of oxygen needs for the different phases of the pandemic.

RESULTS ACHIEVED

• In this first phase of the program, 12 triage stations have been implemented and equipped and delivered:
• 16 tents
• 457 furniture units
• 4,560 medical supplies,
• 54,096 PPEs,
• 51,456 medical devices,
• 576 basic medical equipment,
• 120 oxygen concentrators
• 120 oxygen therapy kits
• 22,000 m3 of medical oxygen

They have been attended to:

• 51,516 people in respiratory triage
• 140 patients with home oxygen therapy
• 9413 patients with emergent ambulatory oxygen therapy
• 52554 hrs. of use of oxygen concentrators

They have been implemented:

• Call center service for remote medical monitoring of patients benefiting from home respiratory therapy service
• 34,080 monitoring calls to beneficiary patients
• Information system service for qualitative and quantitative statistical monitoring of the program

Agreements have been signed with:

• 4 establishments of the ministry of public health
• 4 establishments of the Ecuadorian institute of social security
• 2 instances of autonomous decentralized municipal government
• 1 instance of provincial decentralized autonomous government
• 1 establishment of charitable organizations
• 1 health facility of the armed forces

They have been integrated into the program:

• 6 companies that produce and distribute medical oxygen
• 5 business organizations
• 2 social organizations
• 2 instances of provincial governments
• 3 higher level academic institutions
• 4 companies supplying equipment, medical supplies
• 2 companies supplying oxygen concentrators and oxygen therapy kits
• 2 companies that supply triage tents and hospital furniture