Thursday 10 September 2020

Covid-19: Hospitals to get 80% oxygen cylinders, says Uddhav Thackeray

Uddhav Thackeray has said the state government has decided to provide 80% oxygen cylinders to hospitals and 20% to industries
Uddhav Thackeray
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has said that in view of the WHO’s warning that COVID-19 cases will be on the rise in the coming days, the state government has decided to provide 80 per cent oxygen cylinders to hospitals and 20 per cent to industries.
He also said that although there were only a handful of testing laboratories in the state when the outbreak began, their number has now grown to 550. Uddhav Thackeray said this while inaugurating a testing laboratory and six COVID Care centres in Navi Mumbai on Thursday.
“Considering the warning given by the World Health Organisation (WHO) that the number of COVID-19 cases will rise in the coming days, the state government has decided to provide 80 per cent oxygen cylinders to hospitals and the remaining 20 per cent to industries,” an official release quoted him as saying.


“This distribution of oxygen cylinders will be done through a centralised system,” he said. The state government is creating a large number of health facilities to tackle the pandemic, he said.”But despite the excellent quality of medical facilities, people are skeptical about them. Therefore, the agencies should make efforts to increase the credibility in the minds of people towards the facilities,” Thackeray said….

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