Two officials to ensure oxygen supply to Chandigarh

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 4

For smooth and uninterrupted supply of medical oxygen, the UT Administration has deputed two officials at the oxygen generation plant in Himachal Pradesh.

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has fixed the daily quota of 20 MT of medical oxygen for the UT from M/s INOX at Barotiwala in Solan district.

The medical oxygen is being utilised at government facilities — Government Multi-Specialty Hospital (GMSH), Sector 16, Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Sector 32, and Covid Hospital, Sector 48. Further, private healthcare institutions in the city also require medical oxygen and they are mostly dependent upon cylinders.

After meeting the daily requirement of the GMCH, GMSH and Sector 48 Covid hospital, the remaining medical oxygen is being provided to three approved private vendors for refilling the medical oxygen cylinders for other government and private healthcare institutions in the city.

“To ensure that the 20MT quota of oxygen is being regularly supplied by M/s INOX to three government hospitals and also to each of the three private refilling vendors, the UT Administration has decided to station YP Batra, SDE (PH), and Ashok Singla, AE (PH), Chandigarh Housing Board, at Barotiwala (Baddi), HP, for better coordination with M/s INOX,” said Yashpal Garg, nodal officer for managing the oxygen supply.