CHANDIGARH: To deal with the possible third wave of Covid-19, UT health secretary Yashpal Garg, on Monday, asked director, health services (DHS), to convene a meeting with private hospitals to set up oxygen generation plants in their hospitals on priority basis.
The order reads, “A meeting to be convened with private hospitals at the level of the secretary, health to encourage them to provide oxygen generation plants in their hospitals on priority. All available information and the agencies who can be contacted for installation of oxygen generation plants to be provided to private hospitals during the meeting”.
UT health secretary Yashpal Garg said they would hold a meeting with private hospitals and try to convince them to set up oxygen generation plants. “UT administration will provide them all possible help and assistance in setting up the plants.
As we have seen during the second wave, oxygen plants set up at government hospitals played a major role in the fight against Coronavirus, therefore UT administration will ensure more such plants not only in government hospitals but also in private hospitals,” he added.
Recently, TOI carried a report on UT’s proposal to set up oxygen plants in private hospitals of Chandigarh. To tackle a likely spread of infection among children, Government Multispecialty Hospital (GMSH), Sector 16, has decided to set up a 32-bed dedicated paediatric ICU centre.
The Sector-16 hospital already has 20-bed ICU facility for children. It has eight ventilators and 12 beds with oxygen facility at the hospital’s surgical ward.
