With the oxygen generation plant has been started working at Civil Hospital, the administration has appointed permanent staff to operate and supervise the plant to ensure uninterrupted supply of the oxygen to the patients especially level-III Covid patients. Assistant Commissioner Hardeep Singh has taken stock of the plant through which the supply is being given to the patients.
Divulging the details, Deputy Commissioner Ghanshyam Thori 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 the it's own oxygen generation plant.
The four technical operator and supervisors including Narinder Singh, Shiv Dyal, Bhupinder Singh and Sandeep would have responsibility to oversee the operation of the plant 24-hours, he added.
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.
The Deputy Commissioner 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.
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 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.
The 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.