Andhra Pradesh government sets up State oxygen war rooms

SOWR and DOWRs will see to it that the required oxygen is dispatched to hospitals and covid care facilities and refills are done properly and in time, a release said.

Under intense pressure to bridge the oxygen demand-supply gap and sort out the logistical issues hampering its efforts, the Andhra Pradesh government has set up a State Oxygen War Room (SOWR) and is in the process of constituting District Oxygen War Rooms (DOWRs). These war rooms are tasked with procuring oxygen, arranging it’s transportation to covid hospitals and care centres and ensuring safe storage for using it in the coming months. The increasing number of covid patients requiring oxygen for survival prompted the government to accord top priority to augmenting the production and supply infrastructure and setting up the war rooms to ensure proper coordination that is crucial for preventing fatalities.