HEALTH Minister Sylvia Masebo says pneumonia alone accounts for 800,000 deaths per year, globally, which could be prevented by the availability of oxygen treatment. And Masebo has called upon cooperating partners to assist in supporting the National Medical Oxygen Strategic plan to achieve better results. Masebo was speaking during an event to mark the commencement of construction of the US$1.7 million oxygen plant funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and UNICEF which will be constructed by the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) at Kitwe Teaching Hospital. “Oxygen is an essential medicine used to care for patients at all levels of the healthcare system. This includes oxygen use in surgery, trauma, heart failure, asthma, pneumonia, maternal...