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Guam Memorial Hospital says oxygen deliveries restored, urges investment in local production
Summary
Following a March 17 delivery disruption from the island’s sole liquid‑oxygen vendor, Guam Memorial Hospital told legislators it conserved supplies and resumed normal operations while pursuing a $2 million cryogenic plant and other redundancies to reduce future risk.
Guam Memorial Hospital officials told the Legislature’s Committee on Health and Veterans Affairs on April 6 that the hospital has resumed normal operations after a March 17 disruption to the island’s only liquid‑oxygen supplier forced the facility to curb elective surgeries and conserve supply.
Interim CEO Jolene Ugen led senators on a hospital tour and described the response. Hospital executives said peak use in the week of the disruption averaged about 245 gallons per day; conservation measures and clinical adjustments lowered use to roughly 140 gallons per day, stretching onsite inventories. Hospital staff estimated the two onsite tanks together hold about 4,000 gallons and said, without conservation, available…
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