This was noted on October 20 during a briefing by the Deputy Chairman of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration Mikhail Chernyak.

According to him, the Kharkiv region is now the country's largest consumer of medical oxygen..

“Last wave we had just over 1 thousand beds with flowing oxygen, at the base - 5 thousand beds. The rest were with hubs. Today we have actually 3 thousand beds with continuous oxygen, and we see that there is still demand, ”says Mikhail Chernyak.

The total "

“As for the situation around free beds with flowing oxygen - as of today, at 12:00, they are. Although metrics may change. Including in the city of Kharkov, the situation is more tense, because the regional center, and the number of cases is greater here.. In the hospitals of the districts of the region, the situation is calmer. Out of 2830 beds, which are provided with a centralized oxygen supply, 1,974 places are occupied, "

Mikhail Chernyak also noted that there is a sufficient number of oxygen concentrators in the region..