Oxygen dashboard to monitor supply, distribution

Vadodara: The Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) has set up a dashboard for monitoring of oxygen availability and supply across all hospitals in the city. The facility was kicked off on Wednesday.
The facility that has come up in the Covid-19 war room of the civic body at Badamdibaug will monitor oxygen supply right from the place where it is picked up from to the place where it is delivered. Apart from monitoring the quantity of oxygen supplied to each hospital, it will also monitor usage to ensure there is no wastage or excess storage.
“Knowing the occupancy of beds in the hospitals, we will also be able to work out the average requirement of oxygen there. This will take care of any imbalance in supply,” said officer on special duty for Covid-19 Vinod Rao.
Rao added that the system will ensure that no hospital gets access oxygen and no hospital struggles for it. “Besides sufficient supply, efficient distribution is also important,” he added. Soon, the vehicles carrying oxygen will have GPS tracking devices and will be tracked in the war room. TNN