2 Oxygen plants funded by PM-CARES set up at AIIMS, RML
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New Delhi, May 5 : In a significant development, two medical oxygen plants funded by PM-CARES have been set up at AIIMS and RML Hospital in the national capital within a week.
Union Health Ministry said, Carried out on a war footing, the two plants were swiftly airlifted from Coimbatore and installed yesterday. Both the plants will start supplying oxygen by today evening.
Union Minister of States for Health, Ashwini Kumar Choubey tweeted, Installation of two high flow medical oxygen plants funded by PM-CARES at AIIMS, New Delhi and RML Hospital completed. Oxygen Supply to Covid patients to begin from today.
Medical equipment received as foreign aid meant for people, not to be kept in boxes: Delhi HC
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Last Updated: May 05, 2021, 03:34 PM IST
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Synopsis When the government has received it as medical aid, it is meant to help the people. It is not meant to remain in boxes somewhere and become junk, a bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli said. The observation came after amicus curiae and senior advocate Rajshekhar Rao expressed concerns regarding the manner of distribution of the medical equipment, received as aid, by the Centre and Delhi government.
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The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is all geared up to set up five medical oxygen plants in the first week of May in and around Delhi. The funding for setting up these plants is being done through PM-Cares Fund. These plants will be installed at AIIMS Trauma Centre, Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital (RML), Safdarjung Hospital, Lady Hardinge Medical College and one at AIIMS, Jhajjar in Haryana, according to a Defence Ministry press release on Tuesday. Two of these oxygen plants reached Delhi on Tuesday and are being installed at AIIMS and RML Hospitals respectively.
Foreign Medical Aid Meant For People, Not To Be Kept in Boxes: Delhi HC
The observation came after amicus curiae and senior advocate Rajshekhar Rao expressed concerns regarding the manner of distribution of the medical equipment, received as aid, by the Centre and Delhi government.
The fifth series of a consignment of 545 oxygen concentrators from the US, arrives in India on May 4. Photo: Twitter/@PIB India
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New Delhi:Â The Delhi High Court on Wednesday said that foreign aid, in terms of medical equipment, is meant for the benefit of the people suffering from COVID-19 and not meant to be kept in boxes at some institution to become “junk”.
Govt installs 2 oxygen plants at AIIMS and RML in Delhi
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The Centre, which is facing ire of courts for dire shortage of oxygen in the capital and elsewhere, on Wednesday installed two oxygen plants at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and Dr Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital in New Delhi. The plants, funded by the PMCARES fund, were airlifted from Coimbatore and are expected to start supplying oxygen from Wednesday evening, an official statement said.
It is to be noted that PMCARES has allocated funds for installing 500 medical oxygen plants across the country. “These plants are planned to be set up within 3 months. In all, five high flow medical oxygen plants will be installed at AIIMS Trauma Centre, Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital (RML), Safdarjung Hospital, Lady Hardinge Medical College, and AIIMS, Jhajjar, Haryana,” the statement said.