2 PSA O2 plants at MGM Hospital will be functional soon

Two new oxygen plants set up with Pressure Swing Absorption (PSA) technology at the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Hospital (MGMH) here will be operational within a week or 10 days.

Official sources said these oxygen plants, set up with assistance from PM CARES Fund at a cost of Rs 50 lakhs each, can produce 1000 litres of oxygen per minute. The new plants were set up adjacent to the two existing liquid oxygen tanks with a capacity of 19 kilolitres and 13 kilolitre respectively at the hospital which is the biggest in North Telangana region.

Speaking to ‘Telangana Today,’ MGMH Superintendent Dr B Srinivasa Rao said they have been conducting the trial run of the PSA oxygen plants for several days now. “The new oxygen plants will be functional in 10 days to supply oxygen to needy patients. While the number of beds with oxygen facility was 250 at our hospital, it was increased to 800 in view of the surge in the Covid-19 cases,” he said, adding that they were ready to face the third of Covid-19 with allottment of 1,050 beds exclusively for Covid-19 patients.

The number of beds with ventilator facility will also go upto 140 soon as the government had recently allotted 100 ventilators.

Meanwhile, the State government has appointed 27 Assistant Professors at the Kakatiya Medical College (KMC), a State-run college, to which the MGM hospital is annexed.

“The process of appointing 72 senior resident doctors is also on, and we to complete the it at the earliest in view of the expected spurt in Covid-19 cases due to Omicron variant,” Dr Srinivasa Rao added. Telangana Today