Only one plant operational, one closed, the other not connected
After the installation of more than necessary oxygen plant, one oxygen plant is closed in Narayani hospital premises in Birgunj, while another one is not connected and its equipment is kept in storage.
At present, only liquid base oxygen plant is operating in the hospital premises. Furthermore the pressure swing Adsorption The plant is closed. Another pressure swing Adsorption The plant is kept without connection.
According to Dr. Udayanarayan Singh, information officer of the hospital, the operating liquid base plant was obtained and installed through the Nepal government with American support. Once the tower of this plant is full, the hospital will get the oxygen it needs for 3 months.
The pressure swing installed from the parliamentary fund of the then federal MP Bimal Srivastava Adsorption The plant can produce 100 large cylinders of oxygen in 1 day. Dr. Singh says that this plant is currently closed without operation because it produces more oxygen than the demand of the hospital, consumes too much electricity and the maintenance costs are also high.
The third plant of the conditional grant received from the Ministry of Health also pressure swing Adsorption is the plant itself. 2 plants have already been connected and when one of them was meeting the demand of the hospital, after connecting the and plants, it was found that it was not being used, so without connecting the plant, its equipment was kept in storage
He said. Pressure swing compared to liquid base plant Adsorption Production cost from oxygen plant is also expensive from 2 to 3 rupees per liter. He said that the liquid base plant has been put into operation not only in Narayani, but in most of the government hospitals in the country where both plants are connected. Pressure Swing Adsorption
He said that since the annual maintenance cost of the plant is only 25 lakh rupees, the operation and maintenance of this plant is very expensive from all points of view.
Dr. Singh says that currently there is a demand of only 40 to 50 cylinders of oxygen in the ICU, NICU, PICU, general ward of the hospital. During the corona period, this hospital, which provided treatment services to corona patients from Parsa to Sarlahi, felt the extreme need of an oxygen plant at that time. In the middle of the second corona period, the hospital also faced lack of oxygen for 2/3 days. After the second corona period, both plants were installed in the hospital 4 years ago.
