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New Delhi: Hospitals start generating their own oxygen to tide over shortage

Delhi witnessed 448 Covid deaths in the last 24 hours, as per the official figures. This means that 18 people die in the national capital each hour. Hospitals, which are already grappling with the shortage of medical oxygen, have been overwhelmed.

Little or no help from the central or Delhi governments has forced a number of hospitals in the national capital to install their own oxygen plants and generators.

BLK Super Specialty Hospital and Max Hospitals have procured an oxygen generator and cylinder filling system from France. The hospitals will now install an in-house oxygen generator to tide over the crisis.

This oxygen concentrator, which comes along with an oxygen cylinder filling system, will help the hospital with 15 per cent of its total need for oxygen. In addition, it will also fill 50-60 oxygen cylinders.

Raising SOS feels like sitting on ‘ticking time bomb’
The hospitals got these concentrators from France and they will be installing them shortly. This is the need of the hour and every hospital should get one to reduce dependence on oxygen suppliers and save as many lives as possible, believes the hospital management.

Senior VP of the Max Super Specialty Hospital, Dr Sanjay Mehta told India Today TV, “There is a huge demand-supply gap. There is a massive shortage of oxygen. The need of the hour is oxygen concentrator. We cannot be raising SOS every few days.”

“When we raise SOS, it creates a lot of stress on the doctors and everyone in the system; it feels like sitting on a ticking bomb. The concentrator will reduce the stress on the system,” said Dr Mehta.

‘Sending SOS disturbs entire hospital’
Not just BLK-Max, Narayana Super Specialty Hospital has also installed an oxygen concentrator on the premises to tide over the crisis.

Dr Devi Pratap Shetty, chairman of Narayana Healthcare told India Today TV, “The concentrator and oxygen generator can fill up to 50 oxygen cylinders in 24 hours. This is the much needed tide over the crisis. Sending an SOS every 24-48 hours disturbs the entire hospital.”

The hospital installed and started using the concentrator within hours of its arrival, to cut dependency on oxygen suppliers. With the concentrator in place, the hospital believes it will be able to operate smoothly without having to send out SOS messages. India Today

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