Serum Institute Set-Ups Plant For Supplying Oxygen Cylinders To Hospitals
Pune, 14th May 2021: Serum Institute of India (SII) has successfully commissioned an oxygen plant for corona patients, which will provide an oxygen cylinder facility free of cost to hospitals and around 200 patients can be benefitted every day. Pune-based Primove Engineering Private Limited set up the plant within only 12 days.
When the city of Pune crippled with a shortage of oxygen, the administration gave out a call to institutes, industries and entrepreneurs to come out with all kinds of possible solutions to overcome the oxygen supply crisis. Pune responded to the urgent call and many solutions were offered that helped tide over the crisis of oxygen. Amidst a myriad of creative supply and logistics solutions, some went ahead to produce the oxygen and created facilities for supplying cylinders to the needy hospitals. One such glorious example is what Serum Institute did.
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The facility established at Serum is capable of filling medical oxygen cylinders every day. Oxygen is produced at a purity of more than 93% with required specifications as per the IS codes and FDA standards. Oxygen is being filled in cylinders at a pressure of 150 bar. One cylinder has a capacity of 7,000 litres of oxygen. In hospitals, a typical patient needing oxygen requires about 2.5 litres of oxygen per minute. It means that if a patient is on oxygen for 24 hours, he or she would require about 3,500 litres of oxygen per day. One oxygen cylinder thus can cater to two patients a day. The facility created at Serum Institute would undoubtedly service 200 patients a day additionally and help to save their lives!
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Rajesh Date, Executive Director of Primove, informed that it has already received many orders and enquiries for similar set-ups and Primove would shortly deliver the plants to these customers.
SII Director Kedar Gokhale expressed that it was a desire of the CEO Adar Poonawala to support the hospitals to overcome the oxygen crisis and that motivated the whole team to make this project happen. The project was delivered from Concept to Commissioning within a matter of 12 days, which also involved the importation of the oil-free compressor required for boosting pressure, he informed.
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Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organization (PESO) allotted approval and license within three days, they informed. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) also accorded their approval within a day. Customs officials at Mumbai International Airport Cargo terminus handed over air shipment within no time. With collective efforts and willingness of all to support a noble cause, this dream was actualized in an extremely short time, commented Gokhale.
