The Government has sanctioned 1563 Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) oxygen generation plants of which 1463 have been commissioned. These include 1225 PSA plants which have been installed and commissioned under PMCARES Fund in every district of the country. Additionally, 338 PSA Plants are set up by PSUs of Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Ministry of Power, Ministry of Coal, Ministry of Railways etc. till date. The States have also been asked to install PSA plants in public health facilities and facilitate installation of PSA plants in private health facilities. The details are as per Annexure.
The Empowered Group constituted by the Government on Emergency Management Plan and Strategy recommended that for calculation of oxygen demand, the required rates of oxygen flow in non-ICU and ICU setting are 10 and 24 liters per minute per day per case, respectively. PM CARES Approve Installation of 551 PSA Oxygen Generation Plants inside Public Health Facilities Across The Country.
Based on the above, these plants can support more than 1,00,000 beds/day.
Annexure
| PM CARES | GoI PSUs etc | |
| State/ UT | Commissioned | Commissioned |
| A&N Island | 3 | 0 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 28 | 4 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 27 | 1 |
| Assam | 40 | 10 |
| Bihar | 62 | 12 |
| Chandigarh | 4 | |
| Chhattisgarh | 49 | 7 |
| D&D D&D | 4 | |
| Delhi | 25 | 18 |
| Goa | 7 | |
| Gujarat | 59 | 12 |
| Haryana | 40 | 5 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 28 | 1 |
| J&K | 32 | |
| Jharkhand | 38 | 7 |
| Karnataka | 50 | 36 |
| Kerala | 26 | 6 |
| Ladakh | 7 | 2 |
| Lakshadweep | 2 | |
| Madhya Pradesh | 88 | 20 |
| Maharashtra | 68 | 13 |
| Manipur | 16 | 1 |
| Meghalaya | 14 | 0 |
| Mizoram | 14 | 0 |
| Nagaland | 15 | 0 |
| Odisha | 39 | 9 |
| Puducherry | 8 | |
| Punjab | 41 | 4 |
| Rajasthan | 51 | 20 |
| Sikkim | 4 | 1 |
| Tamil Nadu | 70 | 7 |
| Telangana | 50 | 2 |
| Tripura | 14 | |
| Uttar Pradesh | 128 | 34 |
| Uttarakhand | 25 | 2 |
| West Bengal | 49 | 2 |
| Other Agencies (DRDO, IRCS) | 2 | |
| Total | 1225 | 238 |
The PSA Plants under PMCARES have been supplied and commissioned by the Central Government. States provided for space, 3-phase power supply, DG set for uninterrupted power supply and availability of Medical Gas Pipeline system (MGPS) for interconnection with PSA plant.
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