These plants are planned to be set up within three months.
New Delhi:
The two medical oxygen plants have been installed at AIIMS and Ram Manohar Lohia hospital in the national capital with PM-CARES fund and will start supplying oxygen to these medical facilities by this evening, the Union Health Ministry said on Wednesday.
The plants were airlifted from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu and installed here on Tuesday on a war footing, it said.
The ministry said in order to cope with high demand of medical oxygen amid a surge in COVID-19 cases, fund has been allocated from PM-CARES for installation of over 500 medical oxygen plants across the country.
The DRDO has installed two oxygen plants in Delhi and will be installing three more by the end of this week. Each plant can generate 1,000 litre of oxygen every minute.
Delhi records 311 COVID deaths, over 20,000 cases; oxygen crisis continues in national capital
The city government said in a statement that all-round efforts and aggressive COVID management have resulted in a dramatic decrease in the city s COVID positivity rate.
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A patient suffering from Covid-19 seen on a stretcher at LNJP Hospital in Delhi on Wednesday. (Photo | Parveen Negi, EPS) By PTI
NEW DELHI: The national capital recorded 311 COVID-19 deaths in a day, and 20,960 cases with a positivity rate of 26.37 per cent, according to the health bulletin issued by the Delhi health department on Wednesday afternoon.
DRDO starts installing 5 medical O2 plants in Delhi, Haryana
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New Delhi, May 4 : In order to tackle the requirement of medical oxygen in the wake of the raging second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has started installing five medical oxygen plants in Delhi and Haryana.
Four such plants are being installed in Delhi at AIIMS Trauma Centre, Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital (RML), Safdarjung Hospital and Lady Hardinge Medical College, while the fifth plant is being installed at AIIMS Jhajjar in Haryana.
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DRDO to set up five oxygen plants in and around Delhi.
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) will set up five oxygen plants, out of the total 500 planned, in and around Delhi by this weekend, the Defence Ministry said on Tuesday. These plants are to be installed at AIIMS Trauma Centre, Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital (RML), Safdarjung Hospital, Lady Hardinge Medical College and one at AIIMS, Jhajjar, Haryana, the ministry stated.
India is struggling with the second wave of the coronavirus infection as hospitals in several states are reeling under a severe shortage of oxygen, drugs, equipment and beds.