New Delhi: Administration Leh has expanded oxygen supply in advanced areas by adding new plants as villagers and troops along the LAC (actual control line) with China getting ready for an uncomfortable winter in the midst of uncomfortable border tranquility.
The latest oxygen factory starts on Sunday at the Nyoma Public Health Center (PHCS), about 180 km north of Leh.
Nyoma is a stone’s throw from LAC and is used as a staging area for East Ladakh.
The factory is 100 LPM (liters per minute) will increase Medicare, especially for Covid, by ensuring oxygen supply without interruption to villages that make Changthang great stretches even during the winter.
Until now they must depend on the cylinder transported from Leh, which is inadequate and vulnerable to interference.
The Nyoma unit is the latest in a series of oxygen plants, administrative district administration, led by deputy commissioner Shrikant Balasaheb SUSE, has assigned in the past two months.
Planning for this plant has begun immediately after the first Covid wave has receded.
The 250 LPM factory is being built in Tangtse, around 113 km from Leh and a 114 brigade base that keeps LAC until Himachal Pradesh.
100 other LPM units appeared in Khalke, 90 km south of Leh and the entry point to the district of Srinagar.
The 100 LPM factory was assigned in July in the discite to serve the Nubra Valley, north of Leh.
Leh and cargil each have one oxygen plant in the government sector.
Leh has two more plants in the private sector.
Strict monitoring and medical planning by the district government has transferred the lack of oxygen in Leh even though cases gush during the second wave.