Plant will ensure uninterrupted supply of oxygen to patients
Jalandhar, December 9, 2020: In a significant measure to strengthen the healthcare infrastructure for ensuring quality treatment to serious Covid patients, Jalandhar Civil Hospital will become the first government health facility in Punjab to have an oxygen generation plant within the next three months.
Ensuring the speedy completion of the plant with 700-LPM capacity, the tenders worth Rs 88.20 lakh have been given to a Jalandhar based private firm which will have to complete the work by February last week, 2021.
Disclosing further details, Deputy Commissioner Ghanshyam Thori said the generation plant would produce 700-LPM oxygen daily which is equal to 225-230 cylinders.
He added with the commissioning of plant 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 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.
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 line already had 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.
Deputy Commissioner told that as it is the primary requirement in the treatment of Covid patients and this plant would play a pivotal role in the fight against Covid-19.
Appealing to the people not to take flu-like symptoms lightly and immediately contact nearby health facilities besides get tested for Covid without fail so that the spread of the contagion can be halted, he said that people were reporting late to the doctors hence their condition further deteriorates.
He said that there was no dearth of resources and manpower with the state government to tackle this pandemic.
Executive Engineer Punjab Health Systems Corporation Sukhchain Singh informed the company has already started the installation work and placed the order of oxygen storage tank which is being imported from abroad. Singh said a team of officials has been regularly monitoring the installation work.
