TN has just one day’s oxygen left – ET HealthWorld
Chennai: Tamil Nadu has just one day’s liquid medical oxygen stock left, and the issue has reached a critical point in the state, officials told Madras high court on Thursday.
Top brass of the state’s health department told the judges court that while 25MT of oxygen is being diverted from Sriperumbudur to Andhra Pradesh or Telangana, the 40MT it was supposed to get in return from Palakkad in Kerala has not come.
“Officials say it is a critical situation and the reserves have been used up to the extent that there may be a further day’s reserve, but there may not be oxygen to supply in adequate quantity on Saturday,” said the first bench, recording the state’s precarious oxygen situation.
“The Union and the empowered committee should take immediate steps in such regard to ensure adequate supply of oxygen to the State of Tamil Nadu to meet the needs. This must be ensured by tomorrow (Friday), so that the emergency that the officials speak of – of the reserves supply running out by Saturday – does not happen. It is critical and it requires the attention of the highest offices so that lives are not lost for want of oxygen. The Sterlite unit at Thoothukudi is unlikely to produce oxygen till next week,” the bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy said on Thursday.
During hearing, health department officials said a meeting was held on May 2, 2021, involving officials from Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu, central government representatives, manufacturers and others, at which a consensus was arrived at to ensure that 475MT of oxygen would be released to Tamil Nadu daily.
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