
TS plans to add 10K oxygen beds in government hospitals
The Hindu
Supply of coronavirus vaccine not enough to meet demand: Chief Secretary
A high-level meeting chaired by Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar to review the COVID-19 situation in the State on Saturday has decided to provide medical oxygen supply infrastructure to another 10,000 beds in the government hospitals taking the number with the facility to 20,000. Special Secretary to the Chief Minister in-charge of looking into COVID situation P. Rajasekhar Reddy, senior officials Jayesh Ranjan, Sandeep Kumar Sultania, S.A.M. Rizvi, Rahul Bojja, D.S. Lokesh Kumar, Ronald Rose, N. Satyanarayana, M. Raghunandan Rao, Preeti Meena, Sarfaraz Ahmed, K. Ramesh Reddy and others participated in the meeting. The Chief Secretary requested the Centre to allot 600 tonnes of medical oxygen to the State, to meet the increasing needs of COVID patients, from the present 430 tonnes a day now. He stated that oxygen supply from Odisha was taking place at satisfactory level following the use of IAF planes and railway rakes to transport the medical oxygen.More Related News