"Before the epidemic, the oxygen generators had overcapacity in the country, and they were in a state of a price war. Because of the epidemic, especially the recent epidemic in India, overseas orders have begun to increase." A medical equipment distributor said.【Whatsapp/Wechat/Phone/Skype】+8613613856800
The outbreak in India has recently shown an out-of-control tension, which has aroused global attention. The number of new cases in a single day exceeded 300,000 for several days, and the Indian medical system was on the verge of collapse. The "India Express" quoted an internal government assessment that this wave of the epidemic tsunami will not reach its peak until mid-May when there will be about 500,000 new cases every day.
Chinese Ambassador to India Sun Weidong said on social platforms, “According to the statistics of the General Administration of Customs of China, since April this year, China has provided India with more than 5,000 ventilators, 21,569 oxygen generators, more than 21.48 million masks, and approximately 3,800 tons of medicines. ." Sun Weidong wrote.
The day before, Sun Weidong also introduced on the social platform that Chinese medical equipment suppliers are working overtime to process orders from India. In recent days, they have received orders for at least 25,000 oxygen concentrators.
Why does India lack oxygen concentrators?
The epidemic in India is critical. Dr. Zhang Wenhong pointed out that the run on medical resources is the main reason for the recent surge in deaths from the new crown in India. "Originally, they only need a breath of oxygen to survive." He believes that what India currently needs most is oxygen. Oxygen is better than any medicine and can reduce the death rate of young people.
Supplementing oxygen can alleviate the course of the disease. Many doctors who have supported the treatment of patients with new coronary pneumonia in Wuhan told the health community that when the patient has difficulty breathing, timely oxygen therapy is a measure that must be taken to save the patient’s life to ensure the patient’s blood oxygen saturation. Reach a certain value, and the course of remission will transform to severe and critical illness.
Oxygen therapy is divided into four categories according to the severity of the patient's condition: first, receiving high-flow oxygen inhalation through the nose; second, oxygen supply by non-invasive ventilator; third, endotracheal intubation with invasive ventilator support, lung recruitment, and prone position; Fourth, using ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation), ECMO is also called "the last guardian". Therefore, the high-flow oxygen therapy equipment, non-invasive/invasive ventilator, and ECMO required for oxygen therapy have become the key to the treatment.
Oxygen concentrators on the market are mainly for household use, while hospitals usually use a central oxygen supply system, which reduces the purchase demand for a single oxygen concentrator. At the beginning of February 2020, Wuhan Pulmonary Hospital (Wuhan Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Institute) encountered difficulties in oxygen supply due to the oxygen consumption reaching more than 10 times the peak daily consumption. The reason is that the pipeline of the hospital did not consider this at the beginning of the design. In extreme cases, the oxygen port reserved in the ward cannot supply such a large amount of oxygen at the same time.
As a result, the major designated hospitals for new coronary pneumonia in Wuhan at that time, in addition to moving oxygen cylinders into the wards for an emergency, the transformation of the oxygen supply system was also carried out simultaneously. The support team from the iron and steel company rushed to the line of fire to ensure the renovation of the oxygen pipeline in the hospital. This is also the reason why there has never been a large-scale shortage of oxygen concentrators in China.
"India's hospital transformation cannot be as efficient as the domestic one. It can only rely on oxygen cylinders and oxygen generators." said a staff member of the Shanghai Municipal Hygiene Architecture Design and Research Institute.
In addition to patients with respiratory diseases and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, the general consumer group of oxygen concentrators is mainly concentrated in the elderly. With the aging of the population, the market for oxygen inhalers will also increase.
Oxygen inhalation has a certain effect on alleviating and preventing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and respiratory diseases in the elderly. The prevention and treatment of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in 2020 has stimulated people's attention and expectations for health. At the same time, the public's awareness of household oxygen concentrator products has increased, and the epidemic has carried out market education for users. The report of Zhiyan Consulting believes that driven by multiple factors such as GDP growth, rising social consumption levels, accelerating population aging, urbanization, and upgrading of consumption structure, the demand for my country's oxygen concentrator industry will maintain a growth trend.【Whatsapp/Wechat/Phone/Skype】+8613613856800