Private hospitals with a bed capacity of 60 or more have been directed by the to set up their ownoxygenplants and install centralised Oxygen pipeline systems.
The direction has been issued following the severe shortage of oxygen for Covid-19 patients. The state is regularly reporting over 160 Covid deaths daily and there’s a huge rush of patients with low oxygen saturation seeking admissions in hospitals.
The state’s active cases are, meanwhile, above the two-lakh mark and it is among the five states in the country which have more than two lakh cases. The other four states are Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kerala and Uttar Pradesh.