Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) plants located at Bhopal and Haridwar have started supplying oxygen to hospitals in the respective vicinity, (BHEL) said on Sunday. PSUs are channelizing their manufacturing resources for meeting the demand for oxygen under the nationwide COVID crisis.
BHEL’s Bhopal plant is supplying more than 6,000 cubic meters of oxygen gas daily to hospitals in the Bhopal area. The unit supplied 975 cylinders on Friday, according to an official statement issued. The up-gradation work is in full swing at the Haridwar plant to be able to supply about 16,000 Cubic Meters of oxygen on a daily basis for medical use.
The up-gradation will enable the capacity of the plant to raise supply to about 2,200 cylinders per day as against the capacity of 700 cylinders per day at present. Oxygen is supplied from captive oxygen plants, which have been installed to meet production requirements, in these two units. BHEL is also making efforts for creating oxygen production capacity in other units as well.
