Inauguration of Oxygen Generating Plant at AIIMS Bhopal | 08 Nov 2021

Why in News

• On November 7, 2021, Madhya Pradesh Medical Education Minister Vishwas Kailash Sarang and AIIMS Bhopal President Prof. Dr. Y.K. Gupta inaugurated the PSA Plant (Oxygen Generating Plant) at AIIMS.

Key Points

• This plant has been set up with the help of Coal India under the CSR scheme. Oxygen generating plant produces oxygen from atmospheric air.
• The plant has a capacity of 1000 liters, which will supply oxygen to the trauma center and emergency block and 300 beds of patients will be benefited from it.
• This plant will reduce the dependence on liquid medical oxygen at AIIMS, Bhopal. Now AIIMS Bhopal will have all different modalities of oxygen resources like Oxygen Cylinder, Manifold, 30 KL Liquid Medical Tank and PSA Plant and more than 150 Oxygen Concentrators.