Team News Riveting
Raipur, May 25
SAIL-Bhilai Steel Plant had decided to extend the system of piped oxygen supply to the children wards of the plant-managed JLN Hospital and Research Centre.
The move is part of a precautionary measure in view of the COVID threat perceived in months to come with reports of children being vulnerable. The work for piped oxygen supply in each bed of C3 Children’s Ward was completed. Work to extend the Piped oxygen supply system to C1 Children’s Ward has also begun and is expected to be completed shortly.
Once completed, children admitted in these wards would no longer be dependent on oxygen cylinders for oxygen. The Plant’s JLN Hospital will therefore be prepared and equipped for treatment of children in any of these two wards.
There are now plans to extend the piped oxygen supply to all 860 beds of JLN Hospital, thereby ensuring that the hospital is fully equipped to provide piped oxygen to all patients, if need be.
The Plant management under the leadership of Director I/c Anirban Dasgupta has taken several measures for facilitating better COVID treatment at the Plant’s JLN Hospital and Research Centre.
While additional number of ventilators, new CPAP and BI-PAP machines in ICUs and High Dependency Units and Oxygen Concentrators were procured for treatment of critical patients, one of the vital installations that aided treatment of COVID patients in JLN Hospital is the system of piped oxygen supply at bedside. Many lives were saved because of the supply of piped oxygen at right pressure to patients.
However, even as the number of COVID patients increased, the need for extending piped oxygen supply to more beds was felt. According to Shahid Ahmed, GM (Maintenance), the number of beds with piped oxygen supply was increased to 317 as against 100 during pre-COVID period. Pipes for oxygen supply were laid in two isolation wards, H0 Gynaecology Ward, H0 Male Chest Ward and A3 Ward for direct supply of piped oxygen to needy patients.
The management has also placed an order for a new vaporiser to ensure supply of oxygen from liquid medical oxygen. Expected to be delivered soon, the new vaporiser has a capacity of 1000 cubic metres, which is ten times more than the existing vaporiser. Ahmed said the new vaporiser would enable piped oxygen supply to all 860 beds of the hospital. Foundation work for installing the new vaporiser has been completed.
