‘Rayalaseema districts have sufficient oxygen supplies’
The Hindu
Infra set up last year has put the region in comfortable place: official
The oxygen supply in Rayalaseema districts is sufficient and the infrastructure set up during the height of the pandemic last year has put the region in a comfortable position, Nodal Officer for oxygen and Assistant Director of Drug Control Authority Pullagarula Ramesh Reddy told The Hindu. “Anantapur district had a maximum per-day requirement of 23 tonnes of oxygen in all forms-either in bulk cylinders or for refilling large storage tanks installed at the GGH, Super Speciality Hospital, Cancer Hospital and Hindupur, Guntakal and Kadiri government hospitals, during the peak of virus spread in September 2020 with 3,300 hospital beds occupied,” he pointed out. The Central government had allocated 4,500 new cylinders to the State last year and Anantapur district got 300 out of them and now has 1,000 of them (7.1 cubic meters each) in addition to the 13 kl liquid oxygen tank installed on the GGH premises, another 10 kl tank in the new ‘Super-speciality block’ and a 6 KL tank in the Cancer Care Centre in the adjoining compound.More Related News