SRINAGAR APRIL 26: In order to ensure adequate availability of Medical Oxygen supplies in City Hospitals, Deputy Commissioner Srinagar, Mohammad Aijaz Asad on Monday visited SMHS hospital, Chest Disease hispital and Kashmir Nursing Home and took stock of the availibility of Medical oxygen supply. He inspected Medical Oxygen Generator Plants in these hospitals apart from reviewing the installation works for augmentation of oxygen supply through new generator units.
The Deputy Commissioner was accompanied by Additional Deputy Commissioner Srinagar, Dr Syed Hanief Balkhi, CMO, Srinagar, concerned Medical Superintendent and other senior officers.
At SMHS hospital, DC was informed that 3 Medical Oxygen plants of 2600LPM capacity are presently functioning in the hospital and work on one more plant of 1000 lpm capacity is being carried out on war footing basis. DC gave a timeline to Mechanical Engineering Department to operationalise the Oxygen generator plant from make shift within 2 days.
The Deputy Commissioner directed the concerned to work in double shifts to make additional plant functional within two days to increase the supplies in the hospital.
While inspecting the Medical Oxygen plants at Chest Disease hospital, the Deputy Commissioner was apprised that two Oxygen plants of 430 lpm and 500 lpm capacity are already functioning in the hospital, while work on1500 lpm capacity is also going on at fast pace. He directed the MED Xen to expedite the pace of work and ensure its completion within next 10 days so that sufficient Medical oxygen supply is made available to the patients.
Later, the Deputy Commissioner also visited Kashmir Nursing Home and took stock of the pace of work on 1000 lpm capacity new Medical Oxygen plant.
On the occasion, the DC directed the concerned to ensure early completion and commissioning of the plant within 4 days to cater to the demand of oxygen in hospital.
During his visit, the Deputy Commissioner directed all the Medical Superintendent to work with added zeal and dedication and leave no stone unturned while delivering patient care facilities particularly while dealing Covid-19 patients.
Meanwhile, the Deputy Commissioner directed for establishing an *Oxygen Cylinder Bank* in the district for backup and safety purpose and asked the concerned to work out the proposal within two days so that bulk number of filled Medical oxygen cylinders are kept available as advance Covid-19 combat measures. He also asked the health institutions to create an Oxygen Cylinder Bank to meet out any exigencies. In this regard Xen MED was directed to come up with a firm plan within 24 hours.