Oxygen refilling facility begins for patients in home isolation

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Varanasi: The district administration has started facilities of oxygen cylinder refilling in Durgakund and Chowkaghat areas for home supply to Covid patients in home isolation.
The poor patients will be provided free oxygen supply, while others will be charged Rs 550 for refilling of a jumbo cylinder. Besides, an oxygen plant will also be installed at Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital in Ramnagar area soon.
The district magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma said that free filling of oxygen cylinders was started near the Blind school in Durgakund area on Thursday.The oxygen is being filled in jumbo and small cylinders here. Besides, the district administration has also started oxygen refilling at Jyoti Industrial Company in Chowkaghat area, where one can get a refilled jumbo cylinder for Rs 550. This facility has been started for the Covid patients in home isolation and is expected to ease out the oxygen supply in the district.
Meanwhile, the work of the installation of 120 LPM oxygen plant at LBS Hospital in Ramnagar is in progress. Another 960 LPM plant is being installed with the help of DRDO. With the installation of these two plants, the oxygen supply to 50 beds will start. According to the CMS Ashok Upadhyaya, the plants will start functioning in a week.
Earlier, 120 beds of the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya District Hospital started getting oxygen supply with the installation of an oxygen plant in the hospital. A local industrialist RK Chowdhary had donated funds for this plant. A closed oxygen plant was also restarted recently at Darekhu in Rohaniya area. This plant started refilling 450 cylinders per day, and its capacity will be increased up to 1,000 cylinders in coming days. The DM said that the district was getting oxygen supply from six units of Chandauli and one unit of Mirzapur districts.