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  • Scarce medical oxygen worldwide leaves many gasping for life

    LORI HINNANT and CARLEY PETESCH|Jun 24, 2020

    CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinea's best hope for coronavirus patients lies inside a neglected yellow shed on the grounds of its main hospital: an oxygen plant that has never been turned on. The plant was part of a hospital renovation funded by international donors responding to the Ebola crisis in West Africa a few years ago. But the foreign technicians and supplies needed to complete the job can't get in under Guinea's coronavirus lockdowns — even though dozens of Chinese technicians came in on a charter flight last month to work at the cou...