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This plant can generate 330 litres oxygen, which can fill 50-60 cylinders, and if used directly, around 33 patients can be treated 24*7: CM Arvind Kejriwal
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New Delhi, May 06, 2021 :
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Thursday inspected the installation of the new oxygen plant at Satyawadi Raja Harishchandra Hospital. He said that this plant can generate 330 litres oxygen which can fill 50-60 cylinders, and if used directly, around 33 patients can be treated 24*7. Kejriwal extended his gratitude to the French government for its support to help install this oxygen plant. Kejriwal also said that the Delhi government is setting up 48 such plants across Delhi to address the oxygen shortage.CM Kejriwal tweeted, “Inspected the installation of the new oxygen plant at Satyawadi Raja Harishchandra Hospital. I want to thank the French govt for their support. We are setting up 48 such plants across Delhi to address the shortage of oxygen.”
Kejriwal said, “Delhi has seen an acute shortage of oxygen in the last few days. While on one hand, we are taking oxygen from the Central Government, on the other hand, we are also trying to produce as much oxygen as we can at our own level. We are at Harishchandra Hospital right now where a 330-ltr oxygen plant has been installed, which has the capacity to fill 50-60 cylinders a day. If taken directly through the pipeline, 33 patients can be sustained on it for 24 hours. This is expected to help the 200-bed hospital. About 48 similar oxygen plants are being installed across Delhi, out of which 21 are being imported from France, and the rest are from India. Though these are small plants, I feel they will provide a lot of support to the entire system that is under pressure due to shortage of oxygen.”
Responding to a query on Delhi’s oxygen needs, he said, “I would like to thank the Central Government, Supreme Court, and High Court. It is with their efforts that yesterday for the first time, Delhi received 700MT oxygen; otherwise, we used to get 300 or 320 MT on some days, and on others, it would be 400-450 MT oxygen. You might have noticed that in the last 24 hours, there have been no messages regarding oxygen that’d last only a few hours. Delhi’s oxygen requirement is 700MT, and if we get this daily, proper arrangements can be made in Delhi’s hospitals. With sufficient oxygen, we can even set up additional beds. There are several hospitals that have reduced their beds due to oxygen shortage. If sufficient oxygen is available, all Delhi hospitals can work at full capacity. And many hospitals have told us that they can work beyond their capacity as well, and can set up 50-100 extra beds. In times of such a pandemic, we need to increase as many beds as possible.”
On the issue of vaccination of 18-44 category, Kejriwal said, “In the last three days, vaccination of the 18-44 category has begun in Delhi. A lot of enthusiasm can be witnessed among them. I visited many centres and saw a lot of young people; I’ve also been receiving several messages appreciating the arrangements we’ve made at Delhi government schools. I appeal to the youth to please get vaccinated and also get their parents and everyone in their homes vaccinated. In the end, vaccination is the solution, and we don’t want anybody to fall sick.”
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