Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare and Minister of Chemical and Fertilizers, Mansukh Mandaviya virtually inaugurated two PSA plants at Sir Takhtasinhji Hospital, Bhavnagar.

Along with two oxygen generation plants of 1000 LPM capacity each, a copper piping network and associated facilities like a fire fighting system and automatic oxygen source changeover system were also inaugurated.

The occasion was also graced by Shantanu Thakur, Union Minister of State for Ports, Waterways and Shipping and Shripad Yesso Naik, Union Minister of State for Tourism and Ports, Shipping and Waterways.

Speaking on the occasion, Mandaviya said, “This facility is dedicated to the people of Bhavnagar. Similar such facilities inaugurated recently would help the country in times of crisis.”

The Deendayal Port Trust through its corporate social responsibility has installed the two medical oxygen PSA units at Sir Takhtsinhji Hospital, Bhavnagar, run by the Government of Gujarat, at a total cost of Rs 2.53 crores. The installed PSA oxygen generator unit has the capacity of 1000 LPM (litres per minute) each, i.e., 60,000 litres/hr at 5-6 bar pressure of each unit totalling 1,20,000 litres/hr, which can be utilised for the treatment of COVID as well as other patients of all mankind in the locality, at the hospital.