New Delhi: With the oxygen disaster posing an enormous problem in view of the surge in Covid-19 instances, the federal government on Monday stated it’s exploring the feasibility of changing present nitrogen crops to provide oxygen.
Union Health Ministry Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal stated “1,500 PSA oxygen generation plants are being developed”.
“To increase availability of oxygen, we are working on converting nitrogen plants into oxygen plants. We have identified 14 industries with PSA nitrogen plants, 37 plants have also been identified,” Agarwal stated.
“We are planning to use gaseous oxygen for medical purposes. Industrial units that make oxygen which is suitable for medical purpose and are near cities. We are planning to make temporary Covid care centers with oxygenated beds around them,” he added.
The Joint Secretary knowledgeable that some states, together with Delhi and Madhya Pradesh, are exhibiting early indicators of plateauing/lower within the each day new instances.
He, nonetheless, expressed concern over some states exhibiting rising tendencies in novel coronavirus instances and requested them to take required precautionary measures.
“Some states are showing increasing trends in Covid cases, these states should take required precautionary measures. Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chandigarh, Haryana, Karnataka Kerala, Himachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya are among those states,” Agarwal stated.
The Joint Secretary additional stated there’s a “positive approach in recoveries” too.
“On May 2, the recovery rate was at 78% and on May 3, it climbed up to almost 82%. These are early gains on which we have to work on regularly,” he added.
Meanwhile, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Director Dr. Randeep Guleria stated the “CT-Scan and biomarkers are being misused”.
“There is no advantage in doing CT-Scan if you have mild symptoms. One CT-Scan is equivalent to 300 chest x-rays, it’s very harmful,” he added.
The Health Ministry’s briefing comes as 3,68,147 new instances had been registered within the final 24 hours.
Ten states, together with Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan and Bihar, reported 73.78% of the brand new instances.
Maharashtra has reported the very best each day new instances at 56,647 adopted by Karnataka with 37,733 whereas Kerala reported 31,959 new instances.
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