Indian Navy provides 'Oxygen on Wheels' to COVID Centre
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New Delhi, May 26: The Indian Navy on Wednesday provided an 'Oxygen on Wheels' plant to Palasa COVID Care Centre in Andhra Pradesh. This comes after Srikakulam District Collector J Niwas requested it.
"Based on a request from the Srikakulam District Collector Shri J Niwas, the Indian Navy provided on 'Oxygen on Wheels' plant to Palasa COVID Care Centre," the Defence Ministry said in a statement.
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The Oxygen on Wheels was designed by Naval Dockyard. It was formally inaugurated at the Palasa, Covid Care Centre by Seediri Appalaraju, Minister of Animal Husbandry & Dairy Development & Fisheries in the presence of Sub Collector Suraj Ganore and the Naval Team.
The Oxygen on Wheels has been connected up with the oxygen pipeline in the Covid Health Care Centre at Palasa by a team of specialists from Naval Dockyard Visakhapatnam and it provides oxygen round the clock for up to 12 patients admitted in the hospital. The team has also trained hospital staff in the operation of the plant.
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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.