Oxygen

Delhi Ridge acts as a lung, supplying oxygen to city residents: SC

Supreme Court said Delhi Ridge acts as a lung which supplies oxygen to city residents, while directing DDA to not go ahead with land allotment in areas considered to be notified as protected areas

Select OnePlus phones from 2023 and onwards to get 4 major Android updates

OnePlus has announced that it will offer four generations of OxygenOS and five years of security updates on selected smartphones from 2023

India now has 20,000 tonnes per day Oxygen capacity. 90% of it lying idle

There are 1,242 liquid medical oxygen tanks in hospitals across India with a capacity of 15,622 tonnes. This is a 104 % rise in the number of tanks and a 131% increase in storage capacity

Parliamentary panel recommends audit of 'deaths due to oxygen shortage'

The panel said further that the Committee is "disturbed" by the ministry's "unfortunate" denial of the Covid deaths due to Oxygen shortage in the country

Mumbai amps up hospital capacity and stocks medicines as Covid cases rise

Occupancy has more than doubled over the last week

'4,055 PSA plants commissioned to enhance medical oxygen output capacity'

As on April 4, as many as 4,02,517 oxygen cylinders and 1,13,858 oxygen concentrators have been allocated to states and Union Territories

No state has reported death due to oxygen crisis: MoS Health in Rajya Sabha

Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar on Tuesday informed the Rajya Sabha that no state or Union Territory has confirmed any death due to oxygen shortage

Inox Air announces Rs 750 crore oxygen plant at Sail's Bokaro plant

This is the company's second cryogenic air separation unit at the Bokaro plant in Jharkhand and is also the largest investment in a new oxygen plant

Govt relaxes deadline for re-export of containers used for oxygen transport

The customs department has given time till September 30 for the re-export high-quality containers which have been imported for efficient transportation of liquid medical oxygen

Oxygen requirement in 3rd wave remains nominal, shows study

During a phase when Delhi recorded 28,000 positive cases per day in the second wave last year, hospitals across the city were full and no ICU beds were available.

Ensure optimal availability of medical oxygen at health facilities: Centre

The Centre on Wednesday directed all states and UTs to ensure optimal availability of medical oxygen at all concerned health facilities.

Ensure oxygen equipment at health facilities functional: Centre to states

Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan chaired a high-level meeting with representatives from the states and Union territories through a video-conference on Friday

Covid: Amid Omicron scare, medical oxygen infrastructure augmented in Delhi

Amid a spike in Omicron cases, the Delhi government has ramped up medical oxygen infrastructure to ensure availability of the life saving gas, according to official data. The government has also procured 6,000 D-type cylinders. One D-type cylinder can hold 46 litres of oxygen. Such cylinders were not available in the city till May 31. The data showed that the Delhi Transport Corporation has over 9,115 cylinders in its possession. The city also has Pressure Adsorption plants that have a capacity of producing 99.66 metric tonnes of oxygen. There were no such facilities in Delhi till May 31. The government will also be installing four more plants by January 5, 2022. Two cryogenic bottling plants with capacity of 12.5 metric tonne will be commissioned this week, and these will have the capacity to refill 1,400 jumbo cylinders in a day. Till May 31, the government had three refillers that could fill about 1,500 cylinders per day. The national capital has been seeing a surge in coro

Covid-19: Goyal holds review meeting on medical oxygen preparedness

The supply of oxygen for medical purposes was enhanced almost 10 times from 1,000 tonnes per day in December 2019 to 9,600 tonnes per day in May this year

Railway coaches to Ayush clinics, India keeps beds ready with Omicron rise

The mainstream infrastructure has already been pushed into action, with hospitals now working to ramp up their Covid wards.

Centre to train at least one 'Oxygen Steward' in each district nationwide

The initiative aims to empower all healthcare workers engaged in Oxygen management and administration with the essential knowledge and skills

Commissioned 10 PSA oyxgen plants in J'Khand, says Tata Steel Foundation

Tata Steel Foundation on Friday said it has commissioned 10 state-of-the-art Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) oxygen plants at various locations across Jharkhand.

Probe panel slams Goa hospital for O2 shortage, Oppn stages walkout

A committee appointed to probe oxygen-related deaths in Goa Medical College, has slammed the hospital authorities for lackadaisical attitude and not doing enough to augment oxygen supply

Festival cheer and beyond: Admirable sangfroid in the face of negative news

The government's recent spate of programmes should be expected to generate some momentum, but the macro-economic numbers are not encouraging, notes T N Ninan

Modi inaugurates 35 PSA oxygen plants established under PM CARES fund

With this, all districts of the country will now have commissioned PSA oxygen plants, the PMO has said