Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

The Government has Sanctioned 1563 PSA Oxygen Generation Plants

Posted On: 10 DEC 2021 4:30PM by PIB Delhi

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

 

The Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar stated this in a written reply in the LokSabha today.

 

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