ATM-Oxy with the message “Give oxygen - extend life” was born in Ho Chi Minh City, starting operation from August 2 after nurturing the idea for less than a week. Together with the PHGSmarthome volunteer group and the Vietnam Young Entrepreneurs Association, Ho Chi Minh City Youth Union, Mr. Tuan Anh started his meaningful program.
ATM-Oxy operates by providing oxygen machines and oxygen tanks to support healthcare in hospitals and medical facilities, helping patients undergoing Covid-19 treatment recover quickly. ATM-Oxygen is located at the headquarters of the District Youth Union in 6 districts: District 7, District 8, District 9, Tan Phu District, Binh Tan District and Binh Chanh District.
The operating method and time of ATM-Oxygen also follow the time allowed by the city to go out. The time to receive information from patients will be 24/24, but the transportation to the patient's home will only be done by volunteers from 8am to 5pm every day.
According to Mr. Tuan Anh, currently, F0 and F1 are self-isolating at home so they cannot exchange oxygen tanks. Moreover, the number of shippers is currently limited, the trucks of oxygen filling centers are overloaded, many speculators are pushing the price of tanks up.
From the above reality, finding, buying, and exchanging oxygen tanks becomes difficult, especially for families with sick people. Therefore, ATM-Oxy was born with the hope of helping patients and F0s quarantined at home reduce difficulties. According to him, currently in hospitals, it is normal to change oxygen tanks once every 5-7 days, so there will be 5-6 tanks left empty. ATM-Oxy will increase the fleet of vehicles that exchange oxygen daily for hospitals to increase the capacity of using tanks by 3-4 times.
In the second phase, ATM-Oxy will support free oxygen cylinder exchanges for hospitals with an expected quantity of 5,000 to 10,000 cylinders.
In the third phase, ATM-Oxy will lend oxygen tanks to hospitals. When the epidemic situation in Ho Chi Minh City eases, the program will support other provinces and cities across the country and the next phase will add imported tanks.
Patients who need to change oxygen tanks just need to contact the hotline (+84) 0796555564, and District Youth Union volunteers will deliver oxygen to their home by motorbike.
For those who do not have an oxygen tank and are in difficult circumstances, the program will lend a tank for free.
