Fourth Oxygen Plant Inaugurated in Chakia, Uttar Pradesh
- By Abhirr VP
- 20 Oct, 2021
Union Minister Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey Inaugurates Oxfam India's Fourth Oxygen Plant In Chakia, Uttar Pradesh.
20 OCTOBER 2021 | The Honourable Union Minister of Heavy Industries, Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey today inaugurated the 600 LPM Oxygen Plant at the District Combined Hospital in Chakia in Chandauli district today. The Oxygen plant has been set up under Oxfam India’s COVID-19 response ‘Mission Sanjeevani’. The Oxygen plant will help doctors cater to the needs of people in more than 204 Gram panchayats in Chakia, Naugarh and Sahabganj in Uttar Pradesh.
The inauguration was also attended by Shri Sharda Prasad, MLA of Chakia and Shri Sanjeev Singh, District Magistrate of Chandauli. This is Oxfam India’s fourth Oxygen plant to be set up to help India fight the COVID-19 pandemic. This Oxygen plant at the District Combined Hospital was set up in partnership with the district health department and Gramya Sansthan, a non-profit organisation, that works primarily on issues of Gender, Food & Nutrition and Education.
“We are working closely with the Chandauli health department and local NGOs to ensure this hospital can protect people during the pandemic. This hospital can now take care of the needs of some of the marginalised communities in the region. Besides Uttar Pradesh, we have set up Oxygen plants in Karnataka, Telangana and Bihar. These plants are being set up under Mission Sanjeevani, which is Oxfam India’s COVID-19 Response 2.0. Mission Sanjeevani is focussing on strengthening the public health system in 16 states since the second wave swept across the country”, said Tejas Patel, Deputy Director, Public Engagement, Oxfam India.
In Uttar Pradesh, Oxfam India has so far provided 60 Oxygen Concentrators, 13 BiPAP Machine, 82 Hospital Beds with mattresses, 12 Multi-Parameter Patient Monitors, 04 ventilators, 105 Oxygen cylinders, 92 Oxygen flow meters with humidifiers, 320 nasal masks, 124 Pulse Oximeters, 125 Nebuliser machines, 62 BP Machines, 125 digital thermometers and 20,000 testing kits. 200 PPE kits have been provided for medical staffs and 150 safety kits for frontline workers. Dry ration and community safety kits were provided to 600 families across the state. As part of our ASHA programme, we have reached out to more than 6950 ASHA workers and we have provided them with safety equipment kits.
For Oxfam India, the primary focus in the second wave is health. Oxfam India CEO Amitabh Behar said: “We are reaching out to public healthcare institutions, district administrations and COVID Care Centres with medical equipment such as oxygen concentrators, patient monitoring systems, oximeters, oxygen nasal masks, and thermometers along with PPE kits and safety kits for frontline health workers.”
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