PESO to ensure optimum use of oxygen in Kerala
Moves to augment production across state
Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organization (PESO), Kerala has taken all steps to augment the production of gaseous oxygen and limit to optimum level the usage of an already depleting liquid medical Oxygen (LMO) in the State.
As per the advice of PESO, the LMO production at Inox India limited has been increased from 149 tonnes per day to 160 tonnes by reducing Nitrogen production.
R.Venugopal, Deputy Chief Controller of Explosives, PESO and Nodal Officer (Medical Oxygen Monitoring), Kerala & Lakshadweep said that a new air separation unit (ASU) will be commissioned on May 12 in the private sector at Auxilium Products LLP at Vadakkancherry in Palakkad which can produce 235 litres of high purity liquid Oxygen. The facility could also produce 260 cubic metre of high purity medical oxygen in cylinders. An estimated 700 cylinders of seven metre cube can be filled per day here. The facility can a
Hospitals don t have enough oxygen for patients on ventilators. There are delivery bottlenecks. Families are sometimes told to get their own supplies. Health experts say it didn t have to be this way.
Originally published on May 5, 2021 2:59 pm
MUMBAI, India Sanchi Gupta was running around, trying to get her hands on an oxygen cylinder even an empty one.
Her mother was one of 140 COVID-19 patients in Saroj Hospital, one of the best-equipped hospitals in India s capital, New Delhi. She was on a ventilator in intensive care. Then the hospital told Gupta and other families that its oxygen supply had run out. So they had to go out and find oxygen cylinders to bring to the hospital to keep their loved ones alive. We are not getting full cylinders, so we are trying to find empty cylinders, because we can still get those filled, Gupta explained to local media outside the hospital last month. We re in contact with NGOs [in the hope that they have tanks that can fill cylinders], everybody! We re using every kind of pressure, every contact. We are desperate.
Reliance Industries produces over 11pc medical grade liquid oxygen in India 4:41 AM, 4th May 2021 Reliance Industries plant in Jamnagar, Gujarat, India. (Representative Image/File Photo)
MUMBAI, INDIA: As India grapples with an unprecedented new wave of the Covid Pandemic, Reliance Industries has realized the critical need of the hour is assured availability of medical grade liquid oxygen for treatment of severely ill patients across the country.
Traditionally, Reliance Industries, not a manufacturer of medical grade liquid oxygen, has now become India’s largest producer of this life-saving resource from a single location. At its refinery-cum-petrochemical complex in Jamnagar and other facilities, RIL now produces over 1000 MT of medical grade liquid oxygen per day or over 11 percent of India’s total production – meeting the needs of nearly every one in ten patients.
Distributes free of cost to State Governments
Reliance Industries has ramped up its production of medical-grade oxygen from 0 to 1,000 MT per day, constituting more than 11 per cent of the country’s total medical grade liquid oxygen production.
This oxygen is being provided free-of-cost to several State Governments to bring immediate relief to over 1 lakh patients daily.
Since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020, Reliance has supplied over 55,000 MT of medical-grade liquid oxygen across the country.
In addition to the production of high-quality medical-grade liquid oxygen, the other challenge has been to quickly overcome the transportation bottleneck in the supply of liquid oxygen to various parts of the country. This necessitated increasing the loading capacity for its safe and quick transportation.