With an aim to make the hospitals in Uttar Pradesh self-sufficient in oxygen generation, the Uttar Pradesh government has set up 72 oxygen plants in the state so far, of which 25 plants have started functioning. The government has a target of setting up 416 oxygen plants and work is underway for 344 more.
In UP, 37 new oxygen plants are to be set up from the PM Cares Fund, of which 14 have been installed while three are in process. The state government has approved 64 oxygen plants, of which six have started functioning and work is in progress for 58.
Apart from this, 80 plants have been set up by sugar mills and the Excise department even as 90 oxygen plants are to be set up from MP and MLA funds. Of these, eight have started and work is going on for 82. Under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), a total of 120 plants have been proposed to be set up, of which 18 have already been installed.
Twelve new oxygen plants have started functioning in private medical colleges in the state. These include two in Rohilkhand Medical College (Bareilly), two in Narayana Medical College (Kanpur), one each in Hind Medical Colleges of Barabanki & Sitapur, two in Muzaffarnagar Medical College, one in Subharti Medical College (Meerut), one in NCR IMS (Meerut) and two in Venkateshwara Medical College (Amroha).
A government spokesman said that with the help of the Central government, two oxygen plants have been made operational in the Government Medical College, Saharanpur. A new plant has been made functional by the state government at Uttar Pradesh Medical Sciences University, Saifai, Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences (Lucknow) and Government Medical College (Jalaun).
Principal Secretary, Medical Education, Alok Kumar said here on Sunday that as many as 48 oxygen generator plants are being installed. Of these, 16 oxygen generator plants are being set up by the Central government, 24 by the state government, one from the MLA fund and seven by the corporate institutions.
“The process of establishing and making oxygen generator plants functional in all medical institutions in the state sector is going on continuously. All the plants are likely to become functional from the last week of July to the first week of August,” the spokesman said.