NEW DELHI: Forty-Five Capacity of the PSA Oxygen Capacity of 55.46 Metric Tons has been assigned to a Government Hospital in the National Capital as part of the preparation for the third wave of Covid-19 which is possible, health officials have told Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA).
According to officials, around 160 PSA oxygen plant plants with a total capacity of 148.11 metric tons are being installed in various government and private hospitals in the city.
While the 66 factories were installed at the Delhi Government Hospital, 10 was being established at the Central Government Hospital and 84 in private health care facilities.
Forty-five PSA factories with a capacity of 55.46 MT has been assigned.
Eighteen of these plants from a capacity of 21.06 MT will be assigned on August 15, the health department official said during the DDMA meeting on Friday.
Ten PSA factories capacity of 9.29 MT will be assigned on August 31 and three factories from a capacity of 5.67 MT will be ready on October 15, they said.
Four medical oxygen storage tanks (LMO) liquid from a capacity of 221 MT have been installed in the city.
Another tank of the 50 MT capacity has reached the GTB Hospital and will be installed on August 10, officials said.
Tender has floated for the installation of three other LMO storage tanks from a capacity of 150 mt.
Two cryogenic bottling plants with a capacity of 13.4 MT will be assigned to September 15.
This will be enough to recharge 1,400 cylinders per day.
On Tuesday, the Cabinet of Kejriawal Arvind approved a policy in which subsidies and incentives would be given to the private sector to establish an oxygen production plant and storage facilities to help improve the availability of soul-saving gas in the capital.
Delhi fostered acute shortcomings of medical oxygen in April and perhaps as hospitals in the capital sent SOS calls to the authorities to refill their reduced shares.
Some private health care facilities even asked the government to move their patients.
On April 23, around 21 Covid-19 patients who had critical ill had died at the Jaipur Gold Hospital in Northwest Delhi due to lack of oxygen.
Batra Hospital in the institutional area of Tuxlakabad lost eight lives due to lack of oxygen in 1.
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