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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
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Last updated: May 12, 2022
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