Timely oxygen supply saves lives of 28 Covid-19 patients

Rajkot: Unfortunate incidents of Covid-19 patients losing lives due to hospitals running out of oxygen are being reported from many parts across the country. Thanks to swift action of the administration a similar tragedy was averted at a Jamnagar hospital.
On Saturday evening Samir Sarda, deputy superintendent of Police of Khambhalia in Devbhoomi Dwarka district, received an SOS call from Jamnagar’s Swaminarayan Covid-19 hospital.Officials of the hospital informed Sarda, who is also the nodal officer for supply at the Padana oxygen plant, that they have oxygen stock to last for just 30 minutes.
Total 28 patients were undergoing treatment at the Swaminarayan Covid-19 Hospital and they urgently needed the oxygen. The administration acted swiftly and the police created a ‘green corridor’ for quick movement of the oxygen tanker from the Padana plant to Swaminarayan Hospital. The oxygen tanker reached the hospital just at the nick of time.
“This was a really emergency situation and we immediately filled an oxygen tanker from Padana’s plant and provided police piloting to the oxygen tanker so that it did not face traffic hurdle. The tanker reached hospital in time, covering around 25kms in just 25 minutes,” Sarda told TOI.
The oxygen plant based in Padana village near Reliance’s refinery, supplies oxygen to home quarantine people and hospitals in Devbhoomi Dwarka and Jamnagar districts.