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Oxygen concentrators offer cost savings for developing countries
Author(s) -
Dobson M.B.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1991.tb09413.x
Subject(s) - medicine , oxygen , new guinea , developing country , economics , economic growth , chemistry , organic chemistry , history , ethnology
Summary The costs of supplying oxygen to different sizes of hospital in Papua New Guinea have been calculated; the use of oxygen concentrators in this country would reduce the cost of oxygen supplies by between 25% and 75%.