Setting up oxygen PSA plants in hospitals can become permanent solution: PIL in Delhi HC
The plea suggested PSA medical oxygen plants can become a permanent solution for all the problems which are being faced by the people in the present pandemic.;
New Delhi: A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been moved in Delhi High Court seeking direction to the Central government and Delhi Government to issue mandatory guidelines for establishing the medical oxygen Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) plants in both public and private hospitals in a time-bound manner.
The petitioner, Ananya Kumar, a PhD scholar, who filed the plea through Advocates Vinay Kumar and Manan Aggarwal stated that at present due to shortage of medical oxygen in the hospitals that there is panic among the people.
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The petition said black marketing of medical oxygen is being done and some "shocking news" is also coming from various places of the country that people are hijacking the trucks carrying medical oxygen on their way to the hospitals.
"The big problem right now is that the excess supply of the medical oxygen that is there in the market is in East India, that is Odisha and Jharkhand, whereas the demand is mostly coming from Northern and Western India, that is Uttar Pradesh, Delhi among other places. Oxygen is an inflammable gas and to prevent accidents, it is stored and transported in cryogenic cylinders, but India does not have enough cryogenic cylinders. The main issue is that oxygen is a flammable material and cannot be transported regularly," the petition said.
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