Jalandhar (The Stellar News): As a newly developed oxygen generation plant has started functioning at Civil Hospital, Deputy Commissioner Ghanshyam Thori today inspected the working of the plant. Divulging the details, the deputy commissioner stated that the administration has appointed permanent staff to operate and supervise the functioning of the plant to ensure uninterrupted supply of the oxygen to the patients, in Covid care center. The DC said that Shaheed Babu Labh Singh Civil Hospital has become first in the state to have improved healthcare infrastructure for ensuring quality treatment to serious Covid patients with its own oxygen generation plant. The four technical operators and supervisors have been given the responsibility to oversee the operation of the plant 24-hours, he added. The deputy commissioner said that the work on the plant having 700-LPM capacity had started in December last year at the cost of Rs 88.20 lakh, which had been given to a Jalandhar based private firm adding the generation plant would produce 700-LPM oxygen daily which is equal to 225-230 cylinders.
He added with the commissioning of plants in the civil hospital, the supply of oxygen cylinders can be increased by the vendor to the other private hospitals as 225-230 cylinders which are being used here, can be given to the others amid the apprehensions of a second Covid wave. He said that this plant would ensure an uninterrupted supply of life-saving gas to the serious patients in the Civil Hospital as there would be power generator facilities in it. Mr.Thori said that this would prove instrumental in saving the precious lives of Covid and would help to combat the pandemic efficiently to treat level-II patients. He stated that oxygen supply lines had already been installed on 340-beds in the civil hospital and there would not be any kind of shortage in the future of this life-saving gas. The Deputy Commissioner told that as it is the primary requirement in the treatment of Covid-19 patients and this plant would play a pivotal role in the fight against Covid-19.
