Why are we running out of medical oxygen?
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due to lack of oxygen cylinders as many corona patients are using them since 8-10 days
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There is the logistical problem. Transporting oxygen from one place to another isn’t easy. You have strict protocols on the kind of safety measures you’ll have to have in place before you’re allowed to ferry oxygen. And since we weren’t prepared for the onslaught, we didn’t think much about the tankers and trucks we’d need to meet the stringent logistical needs. So now ministers are scrambling to figure how to move oxygen safely from point A to point B with the limited resources that we have. The only upside is that manufacturers of industrial oxygen have now stepped up to divert their supplies in a bid to fight back. However, fine-tuning production methods to switch from industrial oxygen to medical oxygen can take some time. So that’s a bottleneck as well.
But beyond this, we have other issues with storage. Medical infrastructure in India isn’t state of the art. This means an uninterrupted supply of oxygen is a luxury for the most part. Government hospitals don’t have copper pipelines to seamlessly supply oxygen in most places and they simply use cylinders as an alternative. And while cylinders work well for some use cases, they aren’t very efficient when you are tending to multiple patients at the same time. As one formal Covid-19 nodal officer pointed out — “We had to keep replacing cylinders for patients. It takes two people to replace one cylinder and is a laborious task. There was also a shortage of empty cylinders.”