Telangana: Gandhi hospital to get more oxygen supply

Hyderabad: Director of medical health Dr Ramesh Reddy on Friday said that state-run Gandhi Hospital will get additional oxygen supply and will be able to pump in 2 kl oxygen supply in a minute.
The state got an allocation of 51 oxygen generators and work relating to them will begin within two days.
He said that for patients needing oxygen supply at Gandhi and TIMS, provisions are being made with oxygen at the entrance before they are shifted in. Saying that there is no medicine shortage in the state, and oxygen bed capacity has increased to 15,000 in the state. He said 50 oxygen and ICU beds are occupied both in government and private hospitals.
Chief secretary Somesh Kumar on Friday said that technical staff, mechanics, and police needed to get oxygen tankers from Odisha and Bellary in Karnataka. To reduce the travel distance, a green channel has been approved by the railway department. The Centre on Friday allocated 1.45 lakh Remdesivir injections to Telangana. A total of 53 lakh injections were allocated to all states.
Separately, the government also appealed to the people not to misuse home isolation kits unnecessarily. “It has come to our notice that those who are not symptomatic also pressing for such kits. Using steroids and other medicines not required will be dangerous,” he said.