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Liquid oxygen is being offloaded from a truck to an Oxygen storage facility.
In view of the increased medical oxygen capacity in the national capital, 8 Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) Oxygen Generation plants are being installed in Delhi by the support of PM CARES Funds. These plants would enhance capacity of medical oxygen by 14.4 Metric Tonnes.
Of the eight PSA Plants to be installed in Delhi, one Plant in Burari Hospital, Kaushik Enclave has already been installed on March 17, 2021.
Four plants, one each at Deen Dayal Upadhya Hospital, Lok Nayak Hospital, Baba Saheb Ambedkar Hospital Rohini & Deepa Chand Bandhu Hospital Ashok Vihar, are expected to be completed by April 30, 2021.
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The Arvind Kejriwal government is responsible for Delhi s current oxygen crisis in more ways than one, government sources have indicated. Pointing to the proposed oxygen plants in four hospitals that would be supported by the PM-Cares fund, sources said the Delhi government had not done its homework on these. Sources in the Railway Ministry also said that even now, the Delhi government has not provided cryogenic tankers for the Oxygen Express .
The Delhi government brushed it off as outrightly false statements given by the centre to hide its abject failure in setting up of PSA oxygen plants in Delhi .
Delhi govt s delay resulted in readiness of oxygen generation plants
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UP to set up 10 oxygen plants in a week. Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, April 25 : The wailing chaos over shortage of oxygen, primarily in the national capital, would have been contained to some extent if seven oxygen generation plants would have been installed in time, a senior official in the Union government said. Despite weekly reviews for the past five months, the site readiness for these plants was delayed by the Delhi government, the official told IANS.
Sources informed that eight Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) Oxygen Generation plants have to be installed in Delhi by the support of PM CARES Funds.