Source::Xinhuanet
MUMBAI,
India's financial capital Mumbai will set up 16 plants at 12 hospitals to produce 43 metric tons of oxygen from atmospheric air daily, the city civic authority BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said Saturday.
The move, expected to cost 12 million U.S. dollars, was taken amid an oxygen shortage during the second wave of COVID-19 outbreak in the city, civic officials said. Over the past two years, BMC had set up two such plants at its civic hospitals producing 500 cubic meters and 1,740 cubic meters of oxygen per day respectively with a lifespan of 15 years to 30 years.
Mumbai, capital of the western Maharashtra state, on Saturday saw daily cases dropping to a three-week low at 5,888. As per the latest update, Maharashtra state accounted for 27 percent and 33 percent of India's active cases of 2.55 million and total deaths of 189,544, respectively.
The shortage of oxygen at hospitals across the country had compelled Indian railways to run oxygen express trains by sourcing it from steel plants from various locations in the country. In the past 24 hours, these trains had delivered nearly 150 tons of oxygen across the country, the state-run Press Information Bureau said.
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