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Rs 13 lakh spent on it, CD hospital's oxygen plant useless

5/15/2018
Nitesh Sangral
Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 14: The oxygen plant at Chest and Diseases hospital Jammu is defunct even as more than Rs 13 lakh has been spent on it in the last two years.
In the absence of an oxygen plant, the hospital has to bear the cost of 600 to 700 large oxygen cylinders which are supplied by private firms. Besides, 300 to 400 portable (small) cylinders are also purchased by the administration.

"The old oxygen concentration plant of 446 LPM capacity had been shifted from GMC&H Jammu to CD hospital and the same was made operational on May 1, 2015, after its complete overhaul," sources told Early Times, quoting official records.
Surprisingly, just after four months of installation, the valves of the plant-choked and it stopped generating oxygen. Hence, the hospital management had to procure oxygen cylinders from the market to save the patients.
The sources informed that the concerned wing of the hospital had demanded Rs 10.75 lakh for repair work. The repairs took three months after the amount was sanctioned to make it functional in September 2015. But the plant worked just for three weeks only and again went out of order on August 2015. The matter was brought to the notice of officials of Mechanical Division.

"A communication from the private firm received by the hospital said the plant again needs the complete overhaul to avoid breakdown," the sources said. Later, the Mechanical Division had projected the requirement of Rs 3 lakh for complete servicing of the plant and same was made functional May 2016 after four months gap, but within 10 days the plant turned defunct. Since then it is shut.
The Executive Engineer of Mechanical Wing of GMC, Manish Khurana, said they were working on restoring the plant.



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