SATISH HANDA
Due to shortage of oxygen gas production of laboratory glass wares in nearly 2500 manufacturing units at Ambala supplying glass wares to educational institutes, research centres, laboratories and hospitals has been much affected. According to Kailash Dheer President Scientific Appliances Manufacturers Association (SAMA) Ambala, manufacturing of laboratory glass wares depends upon supply of oxygen gas as such manufacturers at Ambala are finding difficulty in getting oxygen cylinders but looking at the short supply of oxygen being used at the hospitals to save lives of patients suffering from Carona virus in hospitals claiming lives. Dheer said, association has decided to stop production of glass wares in view of heavy demand of oxygen in hospitals at present since life of a person is more important than manufacturing glass wares.
According to laboratory glass ware manufacturers at Ambala, price of oxygen cylinders has been drastically increased up to 100% by the suppliers in view of heavy demand of oxygen in the hospitals as well as shortage of air and liquid oxygen as such manufacturing of glass wares at present has become uneconomical. According to laboratory glassware manufacturers. on an average a industry requires minimum four oxygen cylinders every day as such the total daily requirement of oxygen cylinders required by laboratory glassware manufacturing units in the town comes to be nearly 10000 cylinders.
According to information available with state health department Haryana, the graph of patients suffering from Carona virus has fast increased by three times in the hospitals in the state in past 10 days and patients suffering from this dreaded virus are facing severe respiratory problems due to short supply of oxygen in many hospitals. Information reveals, demand of oxygen in KOVID hospitals has increased six times in past few days as such state health department officers are much worried over increasing cases of Carona virus witnessing 0.10% increase every day and death rate also fast increasing. According to information, over 5% patients admitted in hospitals require oxygen support in hospitals to remain alive after April 15 this month.
According to data available with state health department, Carona positive patients rate was identified as 4.89% on April 13 this month was recorded as 5.59% on April 22, this month. Similarly, there were 259 patients on oxygen support and 57 patients on ventilators in hospitals in the state on April 13 and number of patients on oxygen support increased to 1647 and 167 on ventilators in the hospitals on April 22 this month.
