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New Delhi : Based on a request from Srikakulam District Collector J Niwas, the Indian Navy provided an ‘Oxygen on Wheels’ plant to Palasa Covid Care Centre in the district in Andhra Pradesh, on May 25, 2021. The ‘Oxygen on Wheels’, designed by Naval Dockyard, was formally inaugurated at the Centre by Seediri Appalaraju, Animal Husbandry & Dairy Development & Fisheries Minister, Andhra Pradesh, in the presence of Sub Collector Suraj Ganore and the Naval Team.
The ‘Oxygen on Wheels’ has been connected with the Oxygen pipeline at the Covid Health Care Centre at Palasa by a team of specialists from Naval Dockyard Visakhapatnam and it provides oxygen round the clock up to 12 patients admitted to the hospital. The team has also trained hospital staff in the operation of the plant, according to a PIB release.
‘Oxygen on Wheels’ is a unique initiative launched by the Naval Dockyard wherein a PSA Oxygen Plant was integrated on a mobile platform to serve remote hospitals and was formally launched at Visakhapatnam by Vice Adm AB Singh, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, ENC, on May 20, 2021.