Amid shortage of liquid medical oxygen supply in Gurugam, the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) has set up a call centre to handle liquid medical oxygen supply operation in the district.

For this, the civic authority has set up a dedicated call centre which will work round the clock and a team has also been formed to monitor the oxygen situation in the city.

In this regard, MCG Commissioner Vinay Pratap Singh, held a meeting with officials on Tuesday and gave necessary guidelines for oxygen supply operation.

“Haryana government has been allocated liquid medical oxygen to Gurugram at the rate of 35 metric tonnes per day. Of this, 20 MT will be allocated by Inox Company from Bhiwadi Rajasthan and 15 MT of Air Liquid Company from Panipat,” Singh said.

He said that 20 metric tonnes of liquid medical oxygen coming from Inox Bhiwadi would be sent daily from its own tankers by the company. It will be distributed to hospitals in Gurugram that have their own oxygen tanks. These include Medanta, Fortis, Artemis, Max, Park, Metro and other hospitals. If there is a shortage of company vehicles in its supply, then other vehicles will also be pressed for this. He informed that the allocation of these hospitals has also been fixed.

Singh said that the administration itself will bring 15 metric tonnes of liquid medical oxygen allocated from the Air Liquid Company.

“These tankers will carry oxygen from Panipat to three gas refilling stations in Gurugram.

These include Star Gases and Maxcare at Manesar and GK Industries’ gas refilling stations at Sector-16.

These refilling stations will distribute oxygen via cylinders to hospitals that do not have oxygen tanks. People can also avail oxygen cylinder from these stations,” the commissioner said.

The commissioner said that the supply and distribution of liquid medical oxygen will be done on time, so that there is no untoward incident.