Oxygen facilities are being created at various places within the capital in order that people don't struggle just in case a 3rd wave of Covid-19 emerges. Nineteen more plants are to be inaugurated within each day or two.
Three medical oxygen storage tanks with a combined capacity of 171 MT are found out in Delhi, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Thursday.
“Oxygen facilities are being created at various places in Delhi in order that people don't struggle just in case a 3rd wave of Covid-19 emerges. Nineteen more plants are to be inaugurated within each day or two. The Delhi government has already installed three oxygen storage plants till now of 57 MT each, a complete capacity of 171 MT, and work is being done on a war footing,” said Kejriwal during his visit to the location of 1 of the storage tanks at Siraspur, located within the northwest peripheries of Delhi.
The Siraspur facility also features a 12.5 MT oxygen generation plant, he said.
The other two oxygen storage tanks are found out within the premises of Babasaheb Ambedkar Hospital and DDU hospital, he said.
“The Delhi government is rapidly making arrangements just in case a 3rd wave comes. within the second wave, the most important challenge that we faced was a shortage of oxygen, due to which the people of Delhi had to struggle tons for a couple of days. Therefore, the preparations for that are being made in order that just in case a 3rd wave emerges then there should be no shortage of oxygen,” Kejriwal said.
The Delhi CM further added, “All over Delhi, facilities for oxygen storage, oxygen generation are being created. We faced tons of problems regarding tankers such once we had to urge oxygen from Haryana and other states, we didn't have tankers. So, we also are getting tankers. All preparations are fully swing.”
