Virendra Singh Rawat
Lucknow / Apr 25, 2021
Amid rising oxygen consumption to treat Covid-19 patients in Uttar Pradesh, the state government will rope in top educational and research institutions to conduct oxygen audit to check pilferage of the scarce commodity.
The state will engage Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur; Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow; and IIT-Banaras Hindu University (BHU), APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University (AKTU), Lucknow etc for the purpose.
These institutions would be allocated nearby districts for conducting the audit, UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath has directed health officials. The state has implemented a digital tracking system to monitor and regulate oxygen supply.
He stressed there was no shortage of oxygen in the UP hospitals even as he warned against the hoarding and black marketing of the commodity.
In the last 24 hours, the state reported 35,614 new Covid-19 cases, while 25,633 were discharged after treatment. So far, more than 0.77 million coronavirus patients have been successfully treated.
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is also helping the UP government in setting up 10 oxygen plants across the state.
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