Register online for oxygen on doorstep in Panchkula

Tribune News Service

Panchkula, May 9

In view of the increasing demand of medical oxygen due to a spurt in Covid cases, the Panchkula administration has constituted a team of officials to assist the Secretary, Red Cross, Sector 15, Panchkula, for refilling the oxygen cylinders.

Team to contact patient in home isolation

Deputy Commissioner Mukesh Kumar Ahuja said to ascertain whether the patients needed an oxygen cylinder, a team of officials would telephonically contact the patient in home isolation on the basis of the list of contact numbers provided by the Civil Surgeon, Panchkula. A feeback would also be sought from the doctor to whom the particular sector has been assigned.

Deputy Commissioner Mukesh Kumar Ahuja said the team would be led by city Magistrate Simranjeet Kaur. He said other members of the team include Anil Kumar, TGT (English), Government Middle School, Sector 25, and Deepak Yadav, vocational teacher, Sudhir Kumar, PGT (economics), Dinesh, PGT Hindi, and Jasbir, OSS Instructor, Government Girls Senior Secondary School, Sector 15, Panchkula.

Ahuja said door-to-door oxygen cylinder refilling facility would be made available to residents. A patient or his/her family members are required to apply online on the portal — oxygenhry.in. While applying, the applicant would also have to upload the photo of oximeter reading for oxygen level and his/her Aadhaar card number. They would also have to mention the age of the patient. The service would be provided by volunteers of the Red Cross Society. Apart from this, the district administration has also roped in NGOs for this purpose, he added.

Ahuja said in order to ascertain whether the patients need oxygen cylinder, the team of officials would telephonically contact the patient in home isolation on the basis of the list of contact numbers provided by the Civil Surgeon, Panchkula. A feeback would also be sought from the doctor to whom the particular sector has been assigned.

He said patients would be benefitted by the facility as their kin might need not to wait in a queue to get their cylinders refilled. Besides, this would also keep a tab on those involved in the black marketing of oxygen cylinders, he added.

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