‘Critical situation’: UK hospital running out of oxygen amid soaring Covid-19 admissions – By Russia Today Staff (Russia Today) / January 11 2021
Oxygen supplies at a hospital overwhelmed with Covid-19 patients have “reached a critical situation,” with doctors making the decision to reduce the target range for oxygen levels in patients’ blood.
In a document shared with the BBC on Monday, the National Health Service (NHS) said oxygen supplies are critically low at Southend Hospital as doctors battle to keep Covid-19 patients alive.
As a consequence, the hospital has cut the target range for patients’ oxygen levels from 92 percent to a baseline of 88-92 percent.
“Maintaining saturations within this target range is safe and no patient will come to harm as a result,” the document, which was shared with frontline healthcare workers, reads.
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