KOLKATA: The health department will form district oxygen committees to take stock of the oxygen situation in the state. There will also be panels at medical colleges that will report to Swasthya Bhavan. A health department directive has asked the CMOHs to set up the committees and submit a report by the 10th of every month.
The government is apprehensive of any crisis of oxygen and to pre-empt any eventuality, it wants all data related to oxygen be regularly updated on the portal. After the second wave, the state had improved the infrastructure for oxygen supply and set up 27 liquid medical oxygen (LMO) plants. The state had also set up 73 pressure swing adsorption (PSA) oxygen generating plants.
