In a significant measure to strengthen thehealthcare infrastructure for ensuring quality treatment to serious Covidpatients, Jalandhar Civil Hospital will become the first government healthfacility in Punjab to have an oxygen generation plant within the next threemonths.
Ensuring the speedy completion of the plant with700-LPM capacity, the tenders worth Rs 88.20 lakh have been given to aJalandhar based private firm which will have to complete the work by Februarylast week, 2021.
Disclosing further details, Deputy CommissionerGhanshyam Thori said the generation plant would produce 700-LPM oxygen dailywhich is equal to 225-230 cylinders.
He added with the commissioning of plant in thecivil hospital, the supply of oxygen cylinders can be increased by the vendorto 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 anuninterrupted supply of life-saving gas to the serious patients in the CivilHospital as there would be power generator facilities in it.
Thori said that this would prove instrumental insaving the precious lives of Covid and would help to combat the pandemicefficiently to treat level-II patients.
He stated that oxygen supply line already had beeninstalled on 340-beds in the civil hospital and there would not be any kind ofshortage in the future of this life-saving gas.
Deputy Commissioner told that as it is the primaryrequirement in the treatment of Covid patients and this plant would play apivotal role in the fight against Covid-19.
Appealing to the people not to take flu-likesymptoms lightly and immediately contact nearby health facilities besides gettested for Covid without fail so that the spread of the contagion can behalted, he said that people were reporting late to the doctors hence theircondition further deteriorates.
He said that there was no dearth of resources andmanpower with the state government to tackle this pandemic.
Executive Engineer Punjab Health Systems CorporationSukhchain Singh informed the company has already started the installation workand placed the order of oxygen storage tank which is being imported fromabroad. Singh said a team of officials has been regularly monitoring theinstallation work.