Ahmedabad: Torrent donates oxygen plants

AHMEDABAD: As part of its efforts to help ensure adequate supply of medical oxygen, city-based Torrent Group is setting up 50 pressure swing adsorption medical oxygen production plants at 50 different government hospitals in the country.
These government hospitals are spread across in states such as Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, and Telangana. “The plants are under construction and will progressively start getting commissioned from the second half of May 2021,” the company said in a statement.
Torrent Group has further deployed two cryogenic tankers of 18MT each for the transportation of liquid medical oxygen and has also donated 1,000 oxygen cylinders.
It has provided 200 oxygen concentrators and has set up an oxygen generation plant with a bottling facility in Ahmedabad, which is providing free oxygen to the nearby areas.
These initiatives on a cumulative basis are expected to serve the medical oxygen requirements of about 10,000 patients per day, Torrent said. The Group has also continued to donate medical equipment such as O2FLO high-flow therapy units, ventilators, and antigen kits. It is also donating relief material such as medicine kits and ration kits to the needy in and around the areas of its operations.
“We have taken multiple initiatives, which balance the need for immediate relief and the need to create long-term sustainable infrastructure at government hospitals,” said Samir Mehta, chairman, Torrent Group. “That will not only help ease the current situation but also support the government’s efforts to be prepared for any future healthcare crisis.”