WHO World Oxygen Day
WHO is hosting a webinar highlighting oxygen's crucial role in global health. WHO welcomes all to attend, including global health professionals, healthcare professionals, public health advocates, policymakers, and other persons interested in medical oxygen scale-up and sustaining oxygen ecosystems.
Date: Wednesday
2 October 2024
Session: 13:30 CET
Language: English
Background
Oxygen is an essential medicine used to care for patients at all levels of the health care system. It is life-saving for severe respiratory illnesses like COVID-19 and pneumonia, and for surgery and trauma management.
Oxygen must be available to all patients who require it, especially vulnerable groups such as the elderly, pregnant women, children and newborns.
There remain large gaps in availability of medical oxygen, and inequitable access to it worldwide.
Join the World Health Organization (WHO) for an important World Oxygen Day webinar highlighting oxygen's crucial role in global health.
WHO resolution
In 2023 a new resolution to improve access of oxygen was adopted.
Agenda
| Item | Topic | Speaker |
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1 | Opening remarks | Dr Janet Diaz |
| 2 | WHO updates | Laura Alejandra Velez Ruiz Gaitan |
| 3 | Community contributions |
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| 4 | Partner remarks |
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| 5 | Closing remarks | Adriana Velazquez Berumen |
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