Chandigarh creates Oxygen back-up for government hospitals in emergency

CHANDIGARH: With various steps taken by the UT administration to provide uninterrupted supply of oxygen to government and private hospitals in the city, the UT administration now has oxygen back-up for three government hospitals.
With availability of multifold D-type oxygen cylinders and their timely refilling from concerned oxygen plants and authorised vendors, the UT administration now has 24-hour oxygen backup for the Sector 48 hospital and eight-hour backup for GMCH-32 and GMSH-16.
Yashpal Garg, nodal officer of oxygen supplies in UT Chandigarh, said they have also increased the daily oxygen quota of private hospitals and mini-Covid-19 care centres. The backup of oxygen supplies for government hospitals has been created as there was high demand and supply of the same. There was no backup in case of any emergency. Therefore, steps were initiated to create a back-up. Now, the Sector 48 hospital has 24-hour back-up and GMCH-32 and GMSH-16 have eight-hour back-up.
Garg said they are regularly in touch with Panchkula and Mohali authorities for oxygen supply in case of emergency.
In the recent review meeting, officials submitted that at GMCH-32, apart from the oxygen generated by the recently installed PSA plant, the daily consumption of liquid oxygen is more than 10 metric tonnes (MT) per day. Presently, there are 130 D-type cylinders and arrangements are being done to increase the number to 200.
Similarly, at Sector 48 hospital, the daily oxygen consumption is around 3 MT per day. Presently, there are 218 D-type cylinders, which will be reduced to 150 cylinders after shifting them to GMCH-32.