J&K tightens supply of Oxygen to non-COVID patients As the non-COVID patients are facing hardship due to the non-availability of oxygen, the Jammu and Kashmir Government has devised a procedure to provide hasslefree lifesaving gas to critically ill patients. As per the procedure, family members of the non-COVID patients would be allowed to procure oxygen cylinders or refill gas from a specified plant. To check black-marketing and hoarding to lifesaving gas amid the oxygen crisis, the Jammu and Kashmir government said it is strictly monitoring the generation and supply of oxygen from private plants across the UT as some unscrupulous have made abortive attempts to get oxygen cylinders from private plants on the pretext of supplying the same to non-COVID patients.