The Delhi Cabinet on Tuesday approved a policy for providing incentives to the private sector to set up oxygen production plants and storage facilities to help improve the availability of the life-saving gas in the capital.
Taking into official Twitter handle, Kejriwal noted: ''Approved Medical Oxy Prodn Promotion Policy. It provides several incentives to Pvt sector to set up oxy production plants, invests in Oxy tankers n set up oxy storage facilities. This will help improving oxy availability in Del which became a huge bottleneck in handling last Covid wave.''
According to officials, around 160 Pressure Swing Adsorption oxygen generation plants with a total capacity of 148.11 metric tonnes are being installed at various government and private hospitals in the city. Conversely 66 plants are being installed in Delhi government hospitals, 10 are being set up in central government hospitals and 84 in private healthcare facilities. The city government is also creating Liquid medical oxygen storage facilities and has floated a tender to procure 15 cryogenic tankers having a total carrying capacity of 225 tonnes. In addition, so as to prevent a repeat of the oxygen crisis, the city government is in the process of installing oxygen generation plants and increasing hospital beds to accommodate 37,000 cases a day in case of a third wave.
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