counterfeit oxygen concentrators in India.The 2021 COVID-19 crisis flooded India with oxygen concentrators. Demand during April–June 2021 outstripped the licensed supply chain by an order of magnitude. The gap was filled by imports through non-standard channels, bulk-buying from unaudited Chinese OEMs, and a visible counterfeit segment that put “branded” stickers on unbranded units and pushed
COPD oxygen prescription in India.Long-term oxygen therapy remains one of only three interventions — alongside smoking cessation and, in selected patients, pulmonary rehabilitation or lung volume reduction — that extends survival in COPD. The evidence anchoring this is four decades old, the thresholds have not moved materially, and yet in Indian practice, LTOT prescription
counterfeit oxygen concentrators in India.The 2021 COVID-19 crisis flooded India with oxygen concentrators. Demand during April–June 2021 outstripped the licensed supply chain by an order of magnitude. The gap was filled by imports through non-standard channels, bulk-buying from unaudited Chinese OEMs, and a visible counterfeit segment that put “branded” stickers on unbranded units and pushed
Long-term oxygen therapy remains one of only three interventions — alongside smoking cessation and, in selected patients, pulmonary rehabilitation or lung volume reduction — that extends survival in COPD. The evidence anchoring this is four decades old, the thresholds have not moved materially, and yet in Indian practice, LTOT prescription is persistently miscalibrated. Patients who
Most oxygen concentrator warranties in the Indian market look clean on paper: two years on parts, three years on compressor, free service visits during the warranty period, authorised-service-network coverage city-wide. The disputes that recur across brands are not about the warranty language. They are about which failure mode the warranty language excludes, which piece
Can two people share one oxygen concentrator? Two members of the same family are both on long-term oxygen. An elderly couple, both with COPD. A parent and child with related conditions. A family that survived a shared respiratory illness, both with fibrotic sequelae. The question is natural: can one concentrator serve both, with a Y-splitter