India News | 133 PSA Oxygen Plants Opened in AP Hospitals
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. : Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Monday inaugurated, in virtual mode, 133 Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) oxygen plants set up in government hospitals across Andhra Pradesh.
Amaravati, Jan 10 (PTI): Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Monday inaugurated, in virtual mode, 133 Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) oxygen plants set up in government hospitals across Andhra Pradesh.
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These plants, set up at a total cost of about Rs 400 crore, have an aggregate capacity of 85,208 litres per minute and could cater to 24,419 beds with oxygen supply system.
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Another 11 PSA plants are in the process of being procured and installed.
The Government of India had already commissioned 32 PSA plants at 28 locations in the state, with a total capacity of 26,500 LPM.
Speaking on the occasion, the Chief Minister said the state government was geared up to tackle the third wave of Covid-19 and the PSA plants were a step in that direction.
He said the government was also extending a 30 per cent subsidy to private hospitals, with 100-plus bed strength each, for setting up PSA plants.
"We have now achieved self-sufficiency in meeting the oxygen requirement, given the fact that the entire country faced severe shortage during the Covid-19 second wave last year. We have also purchased 25 cryogenic tankers for transporting liquid medical oxygen, along with 74 LMO tanks," he said.
Deputy Chief Minister (Health) A K K Srinivas, Municipal Minister B Satyanarayana, Chief Secretary Sameer Sharma, Covid Task Force Chairman M T Krishna Babu, Principal Secretary (Health) Anil Kumar Singhal, Health Commissioner Katamneni Bhaskar and other senior officials attended the event.
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