Palamu administration is alert and vigilant against any black marketing of the oxygen, said its nodal officer Amit Prakash, the district supply officer here.
DC, Palamu, Shashi Ranjan has notified nodal officers for vital facilities like ambulance and oxygen cylinders etc.
Amit Prakash said under order of the DC they have put in marketing officer Randhir Kumar at the local oxygen supplier to ensure that each and every filled oxygen cylinder reaches the Covid care centers and not get lost for more money in the route.
Ranjan said that they have proper oxygen management here as today they have received a hundred filled oxygen cylinders. He said only six patients are on the oxygen in the hundred bedded oxygen linked Covid care center till Monday afternoon.Similarly as against the 33 oxygen linked beds sixteen patients are on the oxygen.
DC said as of now there are beds available and with it the oxygen. He said our refilling of the oxygen cylinders takes place in Ranchi.
Ranjan said we are in touch with the chief of the state oxygen task force who is the director industries to ensure that supply of the filled oxygen cylinders and its refilling in Ranchi and its dispatch to Daltonganj remained undelayed.
DC made it clear that barring nine categories of the industries the rest industrial units will not be getting oxygen filled cylinders as first it is to be given to the Covid patient.
The nodal officer Amit Prakash here said there is a clear instruction from the DC to provide oxygen cylinders to such private nursing homes and hospitals where beds are earmarked for the Covid patient.
On Sunday Medinirai medical college hospital in Daltonganj had 86 jumbo size oxygen cylinders and 116 moderate size oxygen cylinders.