PATNA: A new block with 1,200 beds would be constructed in the Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) here soon, state health minister Mangal Pandey said after inaugurating an oxygen generation plant on the hospital campus on Sunday. He said three cryogenic oxygen plants of 22 KL each are to be installed there, including one this month itself.
The minister said the 500-bed block was already under construction there while the government planned to increase the number of beds from the existing 1,050 to about 3,000.
Pandey said, “Altogether 122 oxygen generation plants are scheduled for installation in the government hospitals, including those in the districts and subdivisions, by August-end. The first one has ben installed at the IGIMS.”
He said all efforts were on to strengthen the healthcare facilities so as to face any challenge like the speculated third wave of the Covid pandemic. Pandey said the Regional Institute of Ophthalmology at the IGIMS was also being developed with more beds.
Former Union minister and Patna Sahib MP Ravi Shankar Prasad said the oxygen generation plant at IGIMS would produce 233 litres of oxygen per minute, sufficient to fill 50 D type cylinders in a day. He said single-day generation from this plant would be able to meet uninterrupted oxygen supply to 50 patients for 24 hours.
IGIMS director Dr NR Biswas said the new resources would make this institute self-reliant for oxygen requirements.
IGIMS medical superintendent Dr Manish Mandal said if the patients start getting oxygen completely from the internal oxygen plant, the doctors would save any patient requiring oxygen during the treatment. He said no patient would now return disappointed for want of bed or oxygen from the IGIMS, which is committed to serving people effectively.
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