The Health department on Saturday said availability of Oxygen for medical use will be increased in government and private hospitals by setting up oxygen generation Plants and installing oxygen concentrators, which can extract 750MT to 800 MT oxygen from the air daily.
The need for oxygen during Covid had gone up to 800MT daily. Over the past one year, the increased the number of oxygen-supported beds, which pushed up the requirement of oxygen. The number of O2 beds have also been increased from 6,949 to 18,540 in a year.
The health department is targeting to ensure that even the community health centres in rural areas will have facilities of oxygen for patients and for the purpose, the health department is installing oxygen concentrators in community health centres so that patients get immediate oxygen when they need it.