Demand for Oxygen dips by 66% in 10 days in Faridabad

Bijendra Ahlawat

Tribune News Service

Faridabad, May 25

With a remarkable slide in the number of new and active Covid cases, the demand of oxygen for home-isolated patients has dropped by 66 per cent in the past 10 days in the district.

With more than 98,141 positive cases to date, Faridabad is placed second in the state.

"The occupancy of the oxygen beds in the hospitals has also declined by 50 per cent in the past two weeks in the wake of the downslide in the number of new cases and handsome recovery achieved in the recent past," said an official of the Health Department.

He said this had resulted not only in a huge dip in the demand for hospital beds, but also the need of oxygen supply to both home-isolated and hospitalised patients.

Claiming that the number of active patients and home-isolated ones had decreased by 65.6 percent and 72.7 percent, respectively, in the past one week, he said the demand for oxygen for home delivery had also reduced to half. The demand for the gas for home delivery, which was 182 cylinders on May 15, reduced to 61 cylinders on May 24, which was 61 per cent lower.

Claiming that the supply and availability of oxygen had been streamlined and there was no shortage of gas for the past two weeks, DC Yashpal Yadav said the administration had provided gas at the doorstep to a total of 1,900 requests made so far.

Stating that three plants with a capacity of 690 litres per minute had already been commissioned, he said a work order for setting up seven new plants with a cumulative capacity of 7,600 litres per minute had been released.

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