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Keeping it simple for oxygen coordination is best accomplished when we're welcomed in. 

It’s good to support global leadership in medical oxygen supply management for underserved communities and countries in need. 

It’s great to support efforts that strengthen individual country leadership toward national strategies on medical oxygen supply management.  

Both require some tread into a country’s vulnerabilities on medical needs. 

Let’s tread meaningfully and in a way that assures a welcome back. 

  • Detail the coordinating agencies or government departments responsible for medical oxygen supply receipt. Meet with health administrators. 

  • Detail a country’s current policies, compare with a global review and detail opportunities for policies on oxygen management. Is medical oxygen supply and/or maintenance an ongoing regulatory component within a country? What would it take to sharpen regulatory efforts? Is medical oxygen supply a component to ongoing emergency preparedness and, if not, what structure needs development in a country’s oversight? Meet with health and policy administrators.

  • Determine the fundamental basics for oxygen and respiratory therapy. Facilitate clinical consensus.

  • Ask these countries what is needed for optimal respiratory therapy management, including credentials and labor regulation of clinicians.

  • Seek epidemiological standardization, particularly for respiratory disease components.

  • Request labor and supply standards, and work alongside countries for consistency.

  • Meet with medical oxygen suppliers and determine ongoing logistics needs, based on country. These needs may include transportation, shipping labor or translator assistance.

  • Review trade policies and local manufacturing capabilities by meeting with country leadership and developing a reliable global dialogue.

  • Determine how support can be evaluated by first asking country leadership.

  • Request funding in one stream and maximize efficiency, through global oversight. 


There are several global groups invested in medical oxygen supply donation, tracking, and support.

These groups should tasked with coordinated leadership an they should be provided liaisons who follow through for every country. COVID19 offers an opportunity to coordinate, yet ongoing respiratory therapy needs will be complex and dynamic. Global oversight is feasible and necessary. 

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