Oxygen scarcity: 323 cylinders delivered to Kasaragod from other districts

To mitigate the oxygen scarcity confronted within the district for treating sufferers in hospitals, 323 cylinders had been delivered from other districts by Wednesday night.

This would supply momentary reduction in a time when the Dakshina Kannada district administration on Wednesday determined to formally droop the provision of oxygen from Mangaluru to Kasaragod.

According to well being division officers, the cylinders had been introduced from Kannur, Kozhikode and Malappuram on Wednesday night. The division mentioned 168 D kind (7,000 litres capability) and 155 B kind cylinder (10 litres) had been acquired until Thursday morning. Besides, about 90 extra D kind was anticipated to arrive within the district by the night, the official mentioned.

He additional mentioned that 34 cylinders had been additionally refilled and given to non-public hospitals. All these cylinders would supply some reduction to meet the demand for a day.

Many of the non-public hospitals within the district had been depending on the cylinders equipped from Mangaluru and from the plant in Kannur. However, the hospitals confronted mounting stress following the delay in provide from the Kannur plant owing to a sudden enhance in demand.

At current, there are 147 oxygen beds in 4 authorities hospitals, together with 34 in Kasaragod Government Medical College, Ukkinadka, eight within the General Hospital, Kasaragod, 25 within the District Hospital, Kanhangad, and 80 within the Tata COVID hospital. This warrants a web 370 variety of D kind (7000-litre capability) cylinders.

This was calculated at a mean circulate price of 10 litres per minute per affected person.

Similarly, for the 29 non-public hospitals within the district, 92 numbers of D kind cylinders are required. However, the disaster within the non-public hospital resulted when the provision of those oxygen cylinders, which had been introduced from Mangaluru, was stopped.

The district administration has additionally began the ‘oxygen cylinder challenge’ to encourage industries, firms and others to hand over the unused cylinders for utilizing it for hospitals.

Over 100 industries within the district had initially delivered the cylinders. After the oxygen problem was initiated greater than 30 cylinders have been acquired by the administration and lots of extra have agreed to ship. However, the cylinders could be taken after contemplating the situation.

The non-public hospitals in the previous couple of days confronted a disaster and so they had to shift the critically unwell sufferers to other hospitals due to the non-availability of oxygen cylinders on time.