Hyderabad: The Telangana Medical and Health Department officials have been directed to set up 48 oxygen generation plants in the government hospitals which will produce 324 metric tonnes of oxygen required for the COVID-19 patients in the state and also to ensure that there would not be any shortage of the oxygen in future. The CM also instructed the officials to set up an additional plant to produce 100 MT of liquid oxygen in Hyderabad. It was also decided to set up 6 units of 16 MT plants, 15 units of 8 MT plants, 27 units of 4 MT plants in the Hyderabad government area hospitals. Also read ISRO invites industry to mass manufacture its indigenous oxygen concentratorsAs of Monday, there are 6,926 beds vacant in the government hospitals in Telangana. Of these, 2253 are oxygen beds, 533 ICU beds are 533 and 4,140 are general beds.

Source: dna May 17, 2021 16:52 UTC