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.
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Minister for Food and Civil Supplies R. Sakkarapani inaugurated the distribution of the first instalment of COVID-19 relief fund for ration rice cardholders in Coimbatore on Saturday.
A sum of ₹2,000 will be provided to 10,18,637 rice cardholders in the district through 1,401 fair price shops. ₹203.72 crore had been earmarked for the scheme, he said after inaugurating the scheme at Mani Higher Secondary School in Pappanaickenpalayam. Tokens were issued from May 10 at all the fair price shops for relief distribution.
The number of beneficiaries receiving the amount between 8 a.m. and 12 noon every day will be limited to 200 rice cardholders per ration shop to ensure physical distancing norms, Mr. Sakkarapani noted.