10:39
18 Dec 2020
In Ukraine, over 58% of COVID beds connected to oxygen
In Ukrainian hospitals, 58.6% of beds allocated to treat patients with COVID-19 are connected to the oxygen supply.
Health Minister Maksym Stepanov announced this at a briefing.
"Currently, we have 63,680 beds in health care facilities for COVID-19 treatment, of which 37,308 beds are provided with either a centralized oxygen supply or there's an oxygen concentrator near the bed. The overall security ratio is 58.6%.
As of this morning, we have 22,016 free oxygen beds across the country," Stepanov said.
