New Delhi: Around 30,000 oxygen beds, a two-month buffer of 32 Covid-19 drugs are some of the measures announced Tuesday by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to tackle the emerging threat of the variant of the Omicron coronavirus.
Speaking to the media after a meeting with the ministries, Kejriwal said: “This time we have prepared 30,000 oxygen beds. Of this number, 10,000 are intensive care beds. 6,800 beds under construction will be ready by February.
The government aims to prepare 100 oxygen beds in each municipal district. “There are 270 municipal wards, which means that we will be able to prepare 27,000 beds in a short time,” he said.
To avoid a repeat of the oxygen crisis that hit Delhi during the second wave of Covid-19, Kejriwal said the government had created an additional storage facility for 442 metric tons of medical oxygen.
“We could not produce oxygen. We set up PSA factories that can produce 121 MT of oxygen. Last time, hospitals were sending SOS messages for oxygen. We asked to install telemetry devices in all oxygen tanks across Delhi so our war room will know where the oxygen is running out, ”Kejriwal said.
The government has also imported 6,000 bottles from China and three private filling factories can fill 1,500 bottles per day. “We have set up two bottling plants that can fill 1,400 bottles per day,” said CM of Delhi.
Union Health Minister Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya said in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday that no case of the new Omicron variant had been reported in India as yet.
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