To be higher ready for coping with the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, Delhi University (DU) has stated it would arrange oxygen crops within the North and South campuses, in addition to present oxygen concentrators and oximeters to schools, hostels and departments.
Sharing the plans, Dean of Colleges Balaram Pani stated, “Janki Devi Memorial College and Hansraj College have offered infrastructure for setting up Covid care facilities (100 beds each). We will also offer one of the campus hostels for another 200 beds. These facilities will need beds, medical equipment, oxygen supplies through in-situ small scale oxygen plants with direct pipelines to beds, generators for uninterrupted power supply, medicines, facility for food, and above all salaries for doctors and nurses, who are in great demand but in short supply.”
“We will set up an oxygen plant that can fill in medical cylinders (about 50-80 per day) using the PSA technology that will cost less, is safe in a campus setting and needs minimal clearances and approvals from the government. We have had dialogues with vendors and obtained quotes. We will provide these cylinders, when in need, to every DU member and also to those in the neighbourhood. This step will help support other universities and educational institutes in Delhi as well,” he stated.
A DU official stated the crops will initially be arrange within the North and South campus, however will later even be began within the East campus. He stated all models – together with schools, division, hostels – will probably be supplied with oxygen concentrators, and so on.
“While oxygen cylinders are needed for serious cases of infection, for moderate cases, especially in homes and hostels, supply of oxygen concentrators is a sure way of preventing further infection and hospitalisation. We have 120 establishments in the university including colleges, hostels and two campuses (residential and departments). With an average of two concentrators for each unit, we have a need of about 240 concentrators providing oxygen at a flow of 10 litres per minute. In addition, for the large number of students in hostels and residences, it will be worthwhile to have about 500 pulse oximeters and about 100 thermal scanners,” stated Pani.
Currently, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College and Lakshmibai College are operating isolation centres and Covid care services with 100 beds in every school. Similarly, RT-PCR pattern assortment centres can be found at Lakshmibai College, Hansraj College and PGDAV College.
DU has additionally ready a “data bank” of medical professionals who’re a part of the households of the college group “to extend medical support either through phone or by visiting Health Centres of the University”. The data is accessible on the ‘DU Covid Care’ portal of the University.