As part of efforts to better deal with the Covid-19 situation, chief minister Tirath Singh Rawat virtually inaugurated oxygen generation plants in five hospitals in different parts of the state. The oxygen plants inaugurated by the CM include a 250 LPM plant at Bageshwar district hospital, 100 LPM plant at Champawat district hospital, 200 LPM plant at Pithoragarh district hospital and 1,000 LPM capacity plants each in Himalayan Hospital, Jolly Grant and Coronation Hospital in Dehradun.

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These five Plants will generate a total of 4.76 metric tonnes of Oxygen per day. Rawat thanked Azim Premji for the 600 LPM oxygen plant being set up in Pithoragarh with the help of Azim Premji Foundation and social worker Gopal Goswami for facilitating CSR funding for the Bageshwar plant. The oxygen plants set up in Champawat, Pithoragarh and Dehradun have been provided for by the Government of India through the PM CARES fund.