Each of the 36 district hospitals in the state will have at least one such oxygen generation plant, said Bihar health minister Mangal Pandey. The remaining 122 oxygen plants will be put in place by August 30, he added.
After the second wave of the pandemic hit the country it was very evident that the states did not have adequate amount of oxygen or oxygen plants to prevent shortage in the pandemic, but it seems that slowly states have started to install oxygen plants and are hoping to have better infrastructure to tackle the third wave of pandemic if there seems to come one.
The first of the 123 oxygen generation plants in the state was installed at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS), an autonomous medical institution of the government of Bihar, in Patna on Sunday.
Each of the 36 district hospitals in the state will have at least one such oxygen generation plant, said Bihar health minister Mangal Pandey. The remaining 122 oxygen plants will be put in place by August 30, he added.
The oxygen generation plant at IGIMS marked the beginning of the state’s preparedness for oxygen in anticipation of the third wave of coronavirus disease (Covid-19), added Pandey.
The pressure swing adsorption (PSA) plant will generate 233 litres per minute oxygen, said Ravi Shankar Prasad, Patna’s MP and a former Union minister, who was present at the inaugural ceremony, along with Pandey.
The plant will cater to refilling around 50 D-type oxygen cylinders, each containing around 47 litres of oxygen, in a day, added Prasad.
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