Under its initiative to provide oxygen cylinders refill facility to COVID-19 patients in home isolation, Haryana Government has so far attended to 9896 requests out of 15396 requests received since May 9.
“A total of 9896 oxygen cylinders have so far been delivered in the state against the request for 15,396. It was, however, found that 5473 requests for the oxygen cylinders were not in order,” said an official spokesman.
A door-to-door oxygen cylinder refill facility began on May 9 for the people in Haryana through a portal.
The spokesman said that in its battle against Covid-19, Haryana has almost overcome the problem of oxygen supplies by ensuring timely delivery of oxygen cylinders at the doorstep of the home of isolated patients.
As of today, a provision of 13,949 oxygen beds has been made in the state besides the provision of 5,350 ventilators beds, he said.
A state-level control room has been in operation in Chandigarh round the clock to keep a watch on the supplies and requirements of oxygen coming from the districts while the Chief Minister Manohar Lal has directed the officials to make sure that oxygen was available at the doorstep of the needy person, the spokesman said.
At present, in Haryana around 240 MT of oxygen is coming daily from seven different locations in the country.
The spokesman informed that six PSA (Pressure Swing Absorption) technology-based plants in Faridabad, Sonipat, Karnal, Ambala, Panchkula and Hisar are continuously producing oxygen gas in the capacity of 200 litres of oxygen per minute. The Centre has also approved 43 more PSA technology-based plants of which two plants will be set up in medical colleges and the other 41 plants would be set up in various districts.
These plants will start production by the month of June. Each plant will produce 500 to 1000 litres of oxygen per minute, he added.
The facility of Oxygen Mobile Bank has also been started in Karnal. 22 Industrial Plants located in 13 districts of the state are also providing oxygen to hospitals, he said.
The spokesman further said that so far, 378 NGOs have registered on the portal to supply oxygen cylinders.