Preparing for a doable third wave of COVID-19, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is ready to fee seven oxygen technology crops in civil hospitals by mid-July. These will meet the demand for medical oxygen for sufferers present process therapy because of the virus.
“PMC has planned 15 oxygen generating plants in civilian hospitals. Four plants have already been made operational while seven more will be made operational by mid-July,” stated extra municipal commissioner Rubal Agarwal.
He stated that three oxygen technology crops are within the technique of getting vital monetary approvals. “A total of 15 oxygen generation plants will cater to 1,274 oxygen beds and 214 ICU beds in civil hospitals,” Agarwal stated. He stated that the PMC is gearing itself up to make sure the supply of adequate amount of medical oxygen for the therapy of sufferers within the civil hospitals.
Mayor Murlidhar Mohol stated that PMC has stored a complete of 2300 oxygen beds together with Jumbo Hospital in Shivajinagar to take care of third wave sufferers. “The oxygen generating plant in civil hospitals will help in generating 20-25 tonnes of oxygen every day,” he stated.
PMC has additionally arrange eight crops with a cumulative capability of 52 tonnes to retailer oxygen in six civil hospitals.
The civic administration had on June 21 relaxed the lockdown restrictions within the metropolis after seeing a gentle decline in newly contaminated sufferers. There has been a drastic discount in lively instances with the day by day positivity fee being round 5 per cent.
However, following the state authorities’s alert on the Delta Plus variant of SARS-CoV-2, the PMC once more tightened the lockdown guidelines from June 28 by imposing a curfew after 5 pm and banning public motion after 4 pm. . No exercise is allowed within the metropolis after 4 pm aside from emergency companies and e-commerce companies.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
