N.W.T. premier says more federal help on the way with oxygen to treat COVID-19 patients
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As the Northwest Territories deals with record numbers of active COVID-19 cases, Premier Caroline Cochrane has assured residents that more help from the federal government with oxygen supplies is on the way.
"I don't know the right term for it, it's kind of like an emergency hospital unit that can come in that can have the oxygen compressors that are needed to be able to support patients as necessary," she said on CBC's Power and Politics.
"So they will be sending [some] out."
The N.W.T. is in the throes of its worst COVID-19 outbreak since the start of the pandemic. It reported 422 actives cases yesterday, the most it's ever had. The territory currently has the highest rate of active COVID-19 cases in the country — more than 1.5 times the rate of Alberta, which has the second highest.
On Sept. 23, the N.W.T. Health and Social Services Authority (NTHSSA) issued a news release stating the current surge of COVID-19 hospital patients had revealed "an infrastructure limitation related to the oxygen system."
The issue, the release said, "centres around the distribution system for oxygen within the hospital and limits on the total volume of oxygen that can be delivered in each zone of the building at one time."
Earlier this week, Health Minister Julie Green said the federal government had sent oxygen concentrators – medical devices that feed patients extra oxygen – from the national stockpile, but didn't specify how many.
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