Medical oxygen Unprecedented oxygen cooperation agreed; Air Liquide and Linde first to commit to breakthrough collaboration striving for wider access to medical oxygen

摘要

Unitaid and the Clinton Health Access Initiative(CHAI)have in the last 12 hours announced unprecedented agreements with Air Liquide and Linde,respectively,for improved access to medical oxygen.A major development for both society and the industrial gases industry,the agreements provide a pathway to increased access to medical oxygen in low and middle-income countries during the continuing Covid-19 pandemic.The agreements are made in the form of a non-binding Memoranda of Understanding(MoU)and have been entered into on a non-exclusive basis; agreements with other medical oxygen suppliers are still being pursued,gasworld understands.The announcement comes following intense engagement with the world's major oxygen suppliers by the Covid-19 Oxygen Emergency Taskforce,a group of partners led by Unitaid and Wellcome under the ACT-Accelerator Therapeutics pillar.