New Delhi: Country’s largest metal maker Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) is planning to set up jumbo medical facilities of about 2,500 beds with gaseous oxygen (GOX) for Covid remedy.
This might be as well as to the facilities at present obtainable at SAIL’s 5 built-in metal crops at Bhilai (Chattisgarh), Bokaro (Jharkhand), Rourkela (Odisha), Durgapur and Burnpur (West Bengal).
These jumbo facilities are being deliberate exterior the prevailing hospital facilities and shall have oxygen assist by a devoted fuel line drawn instantly from the metal crops as an alternative of extracting gaseous oxygen from liquid medical oxygen as is being performed within the personal hospitals of SAIL at present.
At the suggestion of the federal government, SAIL shall use gaseous oxygen instantly as an additional supply of oxygen because the demand for liquid medical oxygen is excessive at present, the corporate mentioned in an announcement.
These 2,500 mattress facility might be developed in phased method in collaboration with the respective state governments. In the primary section, the corporate will set up about 700 beds which might be scaled up to 2,500 beds throughout all of the 5 places.
Currently, there are round 3,000 beds within the 5 SAIL hospitals and about 45 per cent of beds have been earmarked for Covid sufferers.
The firm stays dedicated to stand by the nation in combating towards the corona pandemic in each attainable approach, the SAIL assertion added.
#mute
