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New Delhi: Indian researchers have designed a robust, mobile group oxygen concentrator that can be used in rural settings and also be rapidly deployed in emergencies in any location.
The second wave of COVID-19 led to an acute shortage of medical oxygen. While the crisis in the bigger cities was more about rapidly responding by overcoming supply chain limitations, in smaller cities and villages, the crisis exposed the chronic lack of medical oxygen infrastructure in the country.
Overcoming the crisis required two types of solutions 5 to 10 lpm personalized O
2 concentrators for home uses and 500 lpm PSA plants for large hospitals. While the 500 Ipm plants for hospitals were robust, they lacked the portability required for deployment on resource-poor settings, while personal concentrators were too fragile to be used on a sustained basis in a hospital setting. This created a need for a robust technology with necessary portability.
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre s researchers develop OxyJani
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre s researchers develop OxyJani
02 July 2021 | News The mobile group oxygen concentrator can be used in rural settings and also be rapidly deployed in emergencies in any location
Indian researchers have designed a robust, mobile group oxygen concentrator that can be used in rural settings and also be rapidly deployed in emergencies in any location. A team from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, an autonomous institute under the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, developed a new solution with the name ‘OxyJani’ for addressing these novel challenges in adsorption science and engineering.
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India has been going through a vicious second wave of COVID-19 throughout the past month. The total reported coronavirus cases in the country passed the 22 million mark, with an average of 350,000 new cases and over 3,440 deaths each day.
As of May 9th, India had reported over 246,000 deaths, with a seven-day average of new cases around 391,000.
The snowballing numbers of COVID-19 cases are overwhelming the nation’s healthcare facilities, which are now facing a major shortage of supplies, particularly oxygen.
But one of the country’s largest medical gas installation and medical gas service companies says the reason for the shortage is not a lack of supply – it’s getting the medical gas and equipment to where it needs to be. Before the coronavirus pandemic hit the world, nobody expected the demand for oxygen flowmeters, tanks and regulators to hit such high levels.
India s hospitals plead for oxygen supplies
Another 12 people died on Saturday in the capital, New Delhi, after a hospital ran out of oxygen, reports said.
Several hospitals sent out desperate appeals for oxygen on social media on Sunday night, with deliveries arriving only in the nick of time.
One children s clinic in Delhi raised the alarm on Twitter over a shortage of oxygen that has reportedly left around 25 to 30 newborns and children at risk. There s no centralized coordination
Oxygen therapy is crucial for severe COVID patients with hypoxemia when oxygen levels in the blood are too low.
Experts say India is producing enough oxygen, at just over 7,000 tons a day. Most is for industrial use but can be diverted for medical purposes. The Indian government has now directed most of the country s supply of industrially produced oxygen toward the health care system.