GORKHA, June 18: In its bid to ensure regular supply of oxygen to the needy ones in time of treatment, an oxygen plant has been established at Barpak village in Gorkha district.
Chairman of Sulikot rural municipality-2 Lal Bahadur Gurung said that the oxygen mini plant was installed with support from National Innovation Centre to treat the COVID-19 patients from Barpak area.
Gurung shared that the mini plant with the capacity of 70 litres was constructed with the support from Centre.
The oxygen plant is installed at the building of local women’s group located near Barpak Health Post.
With the supply of oxygen from the plant, 12 persons can be treated at a time.
Likewise, a 12-bed isolation facility is also built in the women’s group and the oxygen supply is ensured from the same plant, ward chairman Gurung said.
LAMJUNG, May 23: The district hospital here has established an oxygen plant. The plant was installed at the hospital located at Beshisahar Municipality-8 last night.
Hospital chief Hemanta Shrestha said, "The works on oxygen plant were accomplished in a day. We began it in the afternoon and completed at 10:00 pm. Now, the oxygen would be distributed within two days."
He further said it would be easy to treat COVID-19 patients with the installation of oxygen plant. The materials for the plant had arrived in the district on Saturday morning.
Fifteen cylinders of oxygen are produced by the plant every day. Preparation is underway to supply the oxygen via pipeline to emergency, ICU, isolation, and in-patient ward as well. There are 83 beds in total in the hospital.
However, for now, the oxygen distribution is prioritized to the COVID-19 patients, he added.
Currently, there are 17 COVID-19 patients receiving treatment at the hospital here. It has 25 isolation beds with oxygen facility.
JAJARKOT, May 10: An oxygen plant that was brought by the Health Service Office, Dolpa two weeks ago is yet to be installed.
Office officiating Chief Amar Singh Shahi said the plant was procured to manage medical oxygen for Covid-19 patients in the district and it has so far remained unused in the absence of biomedical engineer to install the equipment. The plant was purchased through the Dragon Meditech Pvt Ltd, Surkhet at the cost of Rs 2.9 million and the company is saying the fitting has been delayed as it has just two biomedical engineers who are currently busy in other areas.
The plant has the capacity of producing 40 liters of oxygen per hour and supplying oxygen to at least 25-30 beds at once.