Lessons Be Learnt From Bitter Experience, Install Oxygen Plants: High Court To Delhi Hospitals

COVID-19 Delhi: The high court also said smaller hospitals and nursing homes with 50 to 100 beds should have PSA plants with a capacity of their normal requirement. It will help in long way if such a situation again arises in future.

The Delhi High Court on Thursday asked all the big hospitals in the national capital with 100 or more beds to install PSA oxygen plants, saying the bitter experience everyone had due to the acute shortage of medical oxygen, for treating COVID-19 patients, has left a lesson to be learnt. The high court said it is high time that at least big hospitals with 100-bedded facilities or more should have their own Pressure Swing Absorption (PSA) oxygen plants which should have a capacity of at least two times of their normal requirement as this would go a long way in reducing dependence on outside sources. A bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Jasmeet Singh also asked the Delhi government's Principal Secretary (Health) to take up the aspect of PSA oxygen plants with hospitals and file a status report in this regard by May 27. Considering that the pandemic is once in a century and hopefully we will see the end of it sooner or later, we are of the view that larger hospitals with 100-bedded facilities or more should have their own PSA plants which should have a capacity of at least two times of their normal requirement, the bench said.