Tribune News Service
Faridkot, October 7
A new pressure swing adsorption (PSA) oxygen plant has been installed at Guru Gobind Singh Medical College and Hospital in Faridkot. It is funded by the PM Cares and was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The PSA plant in Faridkot is one among the 35 plants being set up across states and union territories in the country and all these plants were inaugurated on Thursday. Overall, 894 plants are functional in the country of which 41 are in Punjab.
Terming these plants as vital healthcare infrastructure in his virtual speech, the Prime Minister said during the second wave of Covid-19, the country faced a debilitating shortage of medical oxygen with more than 10,000 metric tonne was required daily due to the exponential surge in infections and deaths. Since these demands could not be met, the government banned the industrial usage of oxygen, airlifted oxygen from those industrial plants and ran oxygen supply trains.
These plants have been installed looking at the deficiency of oxygen during the second wave and to tackle such deficiency during the third wave, if there is any, said Dr Raj Bahadur, Vice Chancellor of Baba Farid University of Health Sciences (BFUHS) here.
Faridkot college gets oxygen plant, Covid labs in offing
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