Coimbatore: Eighty more beds were equipped with oxygen from two oxygen generators at ESI Hospital on Monday.
The hospital officially began using two 200 litres per minute (LPM) medical oxygen generator plants that will provide oxygen at 5LPM to Covid patients with breathing difficulties. This takes the total number of oxygen generators in the hospital to five and number of beds equipped to 140. This will reduce the hospital’s dependence on liquid oxygen, which must be procured from external sources, especially with the state facing an oxygen shortage.
The two generators, which cost a little more than Rs 1 crore, were bought from city-based Faraday Ozone. They were donated by ZF Wind Power and Codissia members.