New Delhi: The Centre on Thursday (April 15) requested states to make rational use of medical oxygen and ensure there’s no wastage whereas stressing that there’s adequate inventory of oxygen within the nation.
Oxygen shortages are being reported in lots of hospitals throughout the nation and because of the spike in COVID-19 instances, the demand could be very excessive. News company ANI reported that a number of sufferers have died within the hallways of the hospitals ready for oxygen.
Medical oxygen is a crucial element within the therapy of COVID-19 affected sufferers. An inter-ministerial Empowered Group (EG2) of officers was constituted through the COVID pandemic in March 2020 to ensure the provision of important medical tools together with medical oxygen to the affected states, the Union well being ministry mentioned.
“Along with the ramped up production of the oxygen manufacturing units and the surplus stocks available, the present availability of oxygen is sufficient,” the ministry mentioned, including that the nation is producing oxygen at its full capability on a regular basis for the final two days.
States have been requested to arrange management rooms to ensure clean provide of oxygen to the districts in response to want, assessment necessities of cylinders, tankers and many others. The ministry mentioned in a press release.
An in depth every day mapping of sources for provide of medical oxygen to the affected states is below preparation to ensure uninterrupted oxygen provide, it mentioned.
“It is pertinent to notice that there’s adequate manufacturing capability of round 7127 MTs for oxygen within the nation, and as per want, the excess oxygen out there with the metal crops can also be being utilised,” the ministry mentioned.
“The country has a daily production capacity of 7127 MT of oxygen per day. Against this, the total production has been 100 per cent since the past two days, as directed by the EG2, since supply to medical oxygen has gone up rapidly,” the ministry added.
On April 12, the medical oxygen consumption within the nation was 3842 MTs, that’s 54 per cent of the every day manufacturing capability.
The most consumption of medical oxygen is by Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, adopted by Chhattisgarh, Punjab, Rajasthan, the ministry acknowledged.
With rising instances, the medical oxygen consumption might want to maintain tempo with the necessities of the states. For this, the present oxygen shares of the nation, together with the economic oxygen shares with the manufacturing crops, is greater than 50,000 MTs, the ministry mentioned.
According to the ministry, the problem at current is to maneuver oxygen from states with much less necessity to these with elevated necessity.
Mapping of surplus sources with states which have higher want for oxygen is being finalised in session with the producers, states and different stakeholders, it mentioned.
This has been undertaken by means of coordinated planning between the Union and state governments to map their necessities as much as April 30 with the out there sources and shares of oxygen within the nation, the ministry mentioned.
