Covid: Doctors cry out for oxygen as EU votes on vaccines patent waiver

Oxygen.

A patient breathing with the help of free oxygen provided by an NGO for Covid-19 in Amritsar, India, on May 23, 2021. PHOTO | AFP

Doctors Without Borders (MSF), an international medical humanitarian organisation now wants medical oxygen supply added to Covid vaccines and PPEs, at the heart of the global Covid-19 response.

This comes on the eve of the European Union parliament vote on the World Trade Organisation intellectual property rights (IPR) waiver for Covid-19 vaccines during the June 7-10 sessions.