Ludhiana: Hospitals asked to have oxygen plants to combat third wave

LUDHIANA: Laying the foundation to combat any crisis due to shortage of the oxygen in the eventuality of third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, deputy commissioner (DC) Ludhiana Varinder Kumar Sharma has asked 25 hospitals, including 24 private health institutions of Ludhiana, to install their own oxygen pressure swing adsorption (PSA) plants soon to cater the needs of the Ludhiana residents in fighting the pandemic effectively.
In a letter to the medical superintendents of these 25 hospitals, Sharma said these plants would help to meet oxygen requirement during the third wave and make these hospitals generate oxygen independently. He said the district administration was ready to provide all kind of support to the hospital whenever the need arises. “Taking in the view of experience in the second wave, we have to prepare better to deal with the virus so these hospitals have to establish the oxygen plant immediately before the advent of the third wave,” he said.
The DC said with the installation of PSA oxygen generation plants, the load on district administration and vendors supplying liquid medical oxygen would minimise and smaller hospitals can be supplied the life-saving gas according to their requirement.