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During a visit to a hospital in Kano State, Nigeria, four years ago, Tayo Olaleye recalls seeing a young boy connected to an oxygen concentrator and learning he had been on it for more than a month. 

Olaleye, a program manager with the Clinton Health Access Initiative’s essential medicines team in Nigeria, says the organization tested the machine and found it was producing oxygen at a 21% level—“which is basically the air you breathe,” she says. It should have read at least 82%. The hospital also didn’t have any pulse oximeters, which measure blood oxygen, so there was no way for the staff to know if the child’s oxygen levels were improving. 

During a visit to a hospital in Kano State, Nigeria, four years ago, Tayo Olaleye recalls seeing a young boy connected to an oxygen concentrator and learning he had been on it for more than a month.

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