Former Union Minister and Congress General Secretary Ajay Maken blamed both the Centre and the Delhi Government for failing to sanction and construct even a single Oxygen storage plant in the national capital.
Maken said that of the eight PSA (Pressure Swing Adsorption) Oxygen plants planned for Delhi, only one has been set up as the Union Health Ministry informed the Delhi High Court on Tuesday.
The admission came when oxygen shortages have left Covid-19 patients gasping in Delhi, he said.
PSA units are small oxygen generation units, which are usually attached to Hospitals in its premises or nearby. Unfortunately, the Delhi Government did not deem fit to even sanction a single PSA oxygen plant, he said.
If we look at neighbouring Congress ruled Rajasthan, 37 PSA Oxygen plants were sanctioned out of which, 24 are up and functional and rest of the 13 are in advance stages of completion.