JAIPUR: Chief minister Ashok Gehlot is likely to inaugurate 11 Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) medical oxygen generation plants in government hospitals here on December 17. The plants will together have a capacity to generate 1,500 oxygen cylinders per day.
Of the 11 plants, four have been established at SMS Hopsital. In four other government hospitals, including Mahila Chikitsalaya, J K Lon, Rajasthan University for Health Sciences, Kanwatia and Zanana Hospital, one plant having a capacity to produce 150 cylinders will be established.
An official said, “Eight plants, which will be established in city hospitals, have been installed. Work orders of three plants have been issued to the firm. It will be commissioned before inauguration.”
Out of total 11 oxygen generation plants, capacity of nine plants will be 150 cylinders per day and two plants will produce 75 cylinders per day. The plants having a capacity to produce 75 cylinders per day are been set up in Gangori and Satellite hospitals. “The proposals were sought from the health department to decide how much capacity of plant will be set up in which hospital,” said an official.An official said PSA technology is used to separate gas species from a mixture of gases under pressure. Installing such plants will be a one-time investment aimed at enabling such establishments to be self-reliant in production, which is the need of the hour to combat the third wave of the pandemic, he said.
As oxygen crisis prevailed during the pandemic, the urban development and housing (UDH) department across the state decided to set up 131 oxygen plants in hospitals in 87 local bodies.
