Govt has sanctioned 1563 PSA Oxygen Generation Plants

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551 PSA Oxygen Generation Plants to be set up in public health
551 PSA Oxygen Generation Plants to be set up in public health

The Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar has informed that The Government has sanctioned 1563 Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) oxygen generation plants of which 1463 have been commissioned. These include 1225 PSA plants which have been installed and commissioned under PMCARES Fund in every district of the country. Additionally, 338 PSA Plants are set up by PSUs of Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Ministry of Power, Ministry of Coal, Ministry of Railways etc. till date. The States have also been asked to install PSA plants in public health facilities and facilitate installation of PSA plants in private health facilities. The details are as per Annexure.

The Empowered Group constituted by the Government on Emergency Management Plan and Strategy recommended that for calculation of oxygen demand, the required rates of oxygen flow in non-ICU and ICU setting are 10 and 24 liters per minute per day per case, respectively.

Based on the above, these plants can support more than 1,00,000 beds/day.

The PSA Plants under PMCARES have been supplied and commissioned by the Central Government. States provided for space, 3-phase power supply, DG set for uninterrupted power supply and availability of Medical Gas Pipeline system (MGPS) for interconnection with PSA plant.

 

Annexure

 
 
PM CARES GoI PSUs etc
State/ UT Commissioned Commissioned
A&N Island 3 0
Andhra Pradesh 28 4
Arunachal Pradesh 27 1
Assam 40 10
Bihar 62 12
Chandigarh 4  
Chhattisgarh 49 7
D&D D&D 4  
Delhi 25 18
Goa 7  
Gujarat 59 12
Haryana 40 5
Himachal Pradesh 28 1
J&K 32  
Jharkhand 38 7
Karnataka 50 36
Kerala 26 6
Ladakh 7 2
Lakshadweep 2  
Madhya Pradesh 88 20
Maharashtra 68 13
Manipur 16 1
Meghalaya 14 0
Mizoram 14 0
Nagaland 15 0
Odisha 39 9
Puducherry 8  
Punjab 41 4
Rajasthan 51 20
Sikkim 4 1
Tamil Nadu 70 7
Telangana 50 2
Tripura 14  
Uttar Pradesh 128 34
Uttarakhand 25 2
West Bengal 49 2
Other Agencies (DRDO, IRCS)   2
Total 1225 238

 

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