Pune: In the main encouragement, around 20 government-managed hospitals now have 464 metric tons of functional liquid oxygen storage capacity, according to the Pune District Health Office report.
It stated that in 20 private hospitals, the capacity was around 256 metric tons.
Increasing storage capacity will be useful in preventing the oxygen crisis.
Sanjay Patil, Chairperson, the Indian Medical Association Hospital in India, told Tii, “Very moved to see that we have created a better storage facility for liquid oxygen, but we also have to give important meanings for generations.
Administration must make an assessment of How much capacity of the oxygen generator that we have had in the government and the private sector.
They must assess data from distributors, which will help us if there is an unfortunate incident in the future.
“According to Patil, the oxygen purity also remains a problem, which needs to be seen.
An official from the District Health Office said the general guidelines of the state government must have liquid medical oxygen storage capacity rather than what is the peak requirement during the second wave earlier this year.
Oxygen consumption has dropped dramatically in the current district with a demand to fall to around 120-125 metric tons per day, from 363 a day in April.
Apart from storage capacity, around 35 government-managed hospitals in the district have also installed their own oxygen plants, which can produce 38,206 liters per minute (LPM) oxygen.