Responding to the widespread crisis of Oxygen being reported from various parts of the country, co-operative major IFFCO has announced setting up an Oxygen plant at its Kalol Unit in Gujarat.
IFFCO MD Dr U S Awasthi has also announced that three more Oxygen Plants are being set up to take care of the growing needs of the life-saver across the country. IFFCO has once again underlined the human face of cooperatives, felt several co-operators in Delhi.
According to IFFCO officials, Oxygen from its plant would be made available shortly, maybe in a week’s time.
A release from IFFCO reads “We at IFFCO, humbly share that on nation’s service, IFFCO is putting up an Oxygen plant with capacity of 200 Cubic Mtr/hr in its Kalol unit in Gujarat. IFFCO will give Free oxygen to hospitals. Each cylinder of 46.7ltr.”
IFFCO release clarifies that Oxygen plant in Kalol will generate medical grade oxygen & fill 700 big D type cylinders daily & also 300 medium B size cylinders on demand which will be supplied to all hospitals free.
IFFCO will fill up free of cost the oxygen cylinders for hospitals. They need to bring their own cylinders for refill. A security deposit will be taken if cylinders taken from IFFCO to avoid hoarding of oxygen, said the IFFCO MD in a tweet.
Meanwhile, with the rampant shortage, Delhi joined the growing list of states that are scrambling to ensure adequate availability of oxygen for Covid patients as the country logged 2,61,500 new cases over the last 24 hours, reports Indian Express.
The Centre, however, placed the onus of tackling the situation on state governments, with Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal saying that they “should keep demand under control”. Earlier, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal pointed out that Delhi is facing an “acute shortage of oxygen”.