Jaipur: During the second covid wave, lack of oxygen beds for very large patients.
Now, because the state government anticipates the third wave in the coming months, he has directed private hospitals to establish their own oxygen plants in their place to meet the needs of covid patients.
Orders apply to private hospitals with 60 beds or more.
Furthermore, adding that private hospitals must connect 50% of their beds with centralized oxygen supplies.
The Ministry of Health also makes it mandatory for private hospitals with less than 60 beds to install oxygen concentrators at 30% of their beds.
Most private hospitals do not have their own oxygen plants and regulate oxygen for medical use of personal suppliers.
“We have issued orders to prepare oxygen plants in private hospitals.
This will help us in producing more oxygen throughout the state for patients,” said Siddharth Mahajan, Secretary (Health).
Rajasthan is the first to issue such orders to make mandatory oxygen plants for private hospitals, but similar order has now been issued by the center, because it makes mandatory oxygen plants in clinical companies have more than 50 beds.
“The experience during the recent wave of pandemic has confirmed that the availability of timely oxygen to covid patients is an important requirement in health facilities,” commands issued by the center.
Overcoming the Head Secretary, the Center has asked the state government to issue instructions needed to mandate any clinical establishment / hospital to form a factory of oxygen generation according to capacity.
The state health authority said they had issued orders for the same thing before the center.
“The state government provides a subsidy of 25% in establishing oxygen plants with a capacity of producing 30 oxygen cylinders every day.
Previously, the government had decided to provide subsidies to prepare an oxygen plant at a cost of more than RS 1 Crore, but because many personal facilities were unable to spend amounts Like that, we discuss this issue with the state government, which has agreed to provide subsidies to prepare plants with a capacity of producing 30 cylinders every day, “said Dr.
Vijay Kapoor, Secretary, Private Hospital, and Community Care House.
Two died and 42 were tested positive in the state on Saturday took the number of victims to 8,949 and tally to 9.53,334.