UP Inc volunteer to forego oxygen for hospitals

Virendra Singh Rawat

Lucknow / Apr 23, 2021

 

Amid rising demand for oxygen to treat Covid-19 patients, the industrialists in Uttar Pradesh have volunteered to give up their consumption of the commodity in their manufacturing units for hospitals.

 

Apex MSME chamber Indian Industries Association (IIA) has urged its members for limiting the use of industrial oxygen, and make additional oxygen available to the state government for medical use.

 

“Do not hold oxygen unnecessarily. This is a transition period. After some time, the situation will become normal. This is our social and human responsibility,” IIA national president Panjak Kumar said in his appeal to the state industrialists.

 

IIA national general secretary Ashwini Khandelwal said the chamber had extended its support to the government during the corona pandemic, and sought active cooperation of all the members during the corona pandemic.

 

Meanwhile, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is also helping the UP government in setting up 10 oxygen plants across the state. The government has invited the private sector to invest in the oxygen bottling space.

 

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