Jumbo Container Covid Hospitals Near Industries In Centre’s Oxygen Plan

The Home Ministry has stressed that steel plants have also raised the production of by-product liquid oxygen so that the demand for the essential public health commodity could be met.

The government is planning to set up jumbo container-based COVID-19 hospitals near industries to meet the severe oxygen crisis in the country. The move will help the centre to enhance oxygen beds for Covid patients amid a dire second wave of infections. "Jumbo container-based COVID-19 hospitals using gaseous oxygen will be set up near industries which produce mainly gaseous oxygen. With this, oxygen beds can be increased as much as possible," Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs Piyush Goyal said in a press conference. The need for oxygen in the second wave has gone up significantly and this will help the government ease the crisis, he said. "For medical purposes we use liquid oxygen, but these would use gaseous. So, supply would not be a problem and oxygen beds can be increased," he added.