Pune: Daily medical oxygen demand has dropped to 81 metric tons (MT) in the district, in accordance with the decrease in Covid cases in recent days.
Requirements have reached almost 95 MT in mid-January.
“Demand for medical oxygen, including for non-covid patients, has dropped to 81 Mt.
We have given instructions to the government and private hospitals to prepare themselves with the availability of oxygen.
Personal oxygen manufacturing plants can produce about 250 MT medical oxygen every day, “Shyam Pratapwar, Joint Commissioner, Food and Medicine Administration (medicine), Pune Division, to the Toi.
Sanjay Patil, Chairperson, the Indian Medical Association Hospital in India, said that there was a stable decline in cases of Daily Covid, private hospitals, who had prepared themselves with oxygen three days, still witnessing lower use.
“Fresh demand for medical oxygen of course goes down in a private, big and small hospital,” he said.
The government managed by the government throughout Pune, Pimpri Chinchwad and rural now has 45 new oxygen generation factories, revealing reports from the district health office.
It added that 17 other plants would soon be installed in all districts.
45 factories have a functional combined capacity of around 48 mt of oxygen generation.
From this oxygen plant plant, Pune Rural has more than 25, followed by Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad.
With the addition of 17 new oxygen plant plants proposed, the capacity will increase further to 71 metric tons.