Withoxygen availability in Maduraiand the southern region getting worse, hospitals and healthcare experts have demanded that the government take steps to provide a major portion of the lifesaving gas produced at the Sterlite plant to these districts.
The District Administration held talks with these liquid Oxygen refillers and asked them to adhere to the agreements signed with private hospitals and supply oxygen accordingly.
Major corporate hospitals in the city are trying to install storage facilities on their campus, but have been told by the installing firm that they would have to wait for two months as the demand is high.
The cost of installing an oxygen plant has doubled from Rs 5 crore before the pandemic, according to sources in a hospital.