Medical oxygen comes from Wollongong's steelworks. Yes, really

Glen Humphries
Updated April 14 2021 - 11:46pm, first published September 24 2020 - 5:00pm
Gas: The Coregas plant (centre of main picture and inset) that sits within the Port Kembla steelworks provides medical oxygen for hospitals, with BlueScope's help. Pictures: BlueScope
Gas: The Coregas plant (centre of main picture and inset) that sits within the Port Kembla steelworks provides medical oxygen for hospitals, with BlueScope's help. Pictures: BlueScope

The medical oxygen breathed by COVID-19 patients in intensive care actually originates at the Port Kembla steelworks.

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Glen Humphries

Glen Humphries

Senior journalist

I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.

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