To strengthen the healthcare infrastructure, Jalandhar Civil Hospital will become the first government health facility in Punjab to have an oxygen generation plant within the next three months.
Ensuring the speedy completion of the oxygen generation plant with 700-LPM (litre per minute) capacity, tenders worth ₹88.20 lakh have been given to a Jalandhar-based private firm which will have to complete the work by the last week of February, 2021.
Deputy Commissioner Ghanshyam Thori said the oxygen generation plant would produce 700-LPM oxygen daily which is equal to 225-230 cylinders.
He added with the commissioning of the plant in the civil hospital, the supply of oxygen cylinders can be increased to the other private hospitals as cylinders can be given to the others amid the apprehensions of second Covid wave. He said that this plant would ensure an uninterrupted supply of oxygen to the serious patients in the Civil Hospital as there would be power generator facilities in it.
He stated that oxygen supply line already had been installed on 340-beds in the civil hospital and there would not be any kind of shortage in the future of this life-saving gas. Executive Engineer Punjab Health Systems Corporation Sukhchain Singh informed the company has already started the installation work and placed the order of oxygen storage tank which is being imported from abroad. Singh said a team of officials has been regularly monitoring the installation work.
