AGARTALA: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has launched a project under which it will be setting up oxygen-producing plants in seven district hospitals of Tripura. Dr Dilip Das, Chairperson, Patient Welfare Society, said that the oxygen-producing plants will also be set up at Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital, which is expected to be operational by March 2021.
According to a report, hospitals in Tripura are currently solely dependent on the oxygen cylinders coming from a private plant, and no hospital, including Agartala Government Medical College, has modern oxygen-producing units. This comes as UNDP’s biggest project for northeast India which is aiming to end the oxygen shortage problem in state hospitals. An official from UNDP stated that once the site is selected, it will take around 45 days to complete the project.