50-bed Gurugram hospitals told to set up own oxygen plants

Sumedha Sharma

Tribune news Service

Gurugram, May 7

Amid allegations of preferential treatment to big hospitals in oxygen allotment, the Gurugram administration has directed all facilities with a capacity of over 50 beds to make own arrangements for the life-saving gas.

Fresh instructions

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Hospitals with more than 50 beds will either have to set up own oxygen plants or make arrangements for PSA oxygen generation.

The hospitals have been told to either set up own plants or make arrangements for PSA (pressure swing adsorption) oxygen generation.

“Instructions have been given to hospitals with more than 50 beds to manage own oxygen needs, whether through liquid oxygen plants or by arranging a PSA,” said a senior administration official. The decision was taken at a meeting today.

Small hospitals and clinics and patients in home isolation have been crying foul over alleged higher oxygen allocation to “VIP hospitals”. They alleged they had to beg on social media during the recent oxygen crisis.

The official said there was a plan to set up six oxygen plants in the district. A PSA-based 1,000 MLP oxygen plant will be set up at the Civil Hospital, Gurugram. Two similar plants of 200 MLP capacity will be set up at the sub-divisional hospitals in Pataudi and Sohna.