As India continues to witness a shortage of medical oxygen amid rising Covid-19 cases, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday chaired a meeting to review the usage of oxygen in the country that can be tapped for medical use. At the meeting, the PM also reviewed the feasibility of converting the existing nitrogen plants in the country to produce oxygen for medical use.
'Many industries using rich combustion processes and power plants have oxygen plants which produce gaseous oxygen which can be tapped for medical use. A strategy has been put in place to identify such industrial units which are closer to demand centres and establish temporary Covid care centres with oxygenated beds near that source.
