What retains docs, Amritsar admin on toes: Fear of O2 vehicles assembly an accident or flat tyre

Medical emergencies usually are not the one factor that fear docs and people incharge of managing oxygen provide at Amritsar’s Guru Nanak Dev Hospital (GNDH) as of late. They additionally pray that oxygen tankers on solution to the hospital don’t meet any accident and arrive on time as they journey from Panipat in Haryana and Paunta Sahib in Himachal Pradesh.
Amid a day by day scramble for medical oxygen, docs revealed, the generally the distinction between O2 provide left and the arrival of a tanker is barely minutes.
GMC Principal Rajiv Kumar Devgan mentioned, “Earlier we used have oxygen in abundance. So we never cared about the factors that could now decide between life and death. Now we are worried for the waste of oxygen in many ways like leakage of pipes. Also sometimes patients remove oxygen mask to go to washroom and we ensure that oxygen is paused for that time. We don’t want oxygen to get waste for any reason. Right now oxygen is too precious for us. There is high demand of oxygen. But everything is dependent on the supply.”
“We are always afraid of road accidents that trucks carrying oxygen supply could meet on their way to Amritsar. There could be many reasons that delay or abort the oxygen supply through trucks. When oxygen doesn’t reach on time then we try to arrange cylinders from here and there till trucks arrive. So we remain under huge pressure to maintain the smooth supply from Panipat or Himachal to Amritsar. We even remain concerned about possibility of puncture in truck tyres,” mentioned a district administration official.
Police can also be offering safety to those oxygen vehicles.
“We are providing security to the oxygen tankers. This arrangement is looked after at the state-level. Every district police provides escort to the oxygen tankers and we receive these tankers on the border of Amritsar. It is to ensure that tanker reaches on time. We are also providing security to five oxygen plants in Amritsar and to movement of oxygen within district,” mentioned a police spokesman.