Noida: After Noida and Greater Noida, supply and refilling of oxygen for home isolation patients have also been streamlined for the outer parts of Gautam Budh Nagar. On Friday, the district administration directed the Nagar Palika of Dadri and the Nagar Panchayat of Jewar to arrange oxygen cylinders for residents. The residents will be provided with refilled cylinders in exchange for empty ones by the respective authority. In return for the refilled cylinder, people taking the life-saving gas will have to provide a copy of the Aadhaar card, prescription of the doctor, oxygen saturation level and Covid test reports.
 
Charges for the oxygen cylinders have also been fixed. While small refilled cylinders will be provided at a price of Rs 200, the loaded jumbo oxygen cylinder will be available for Rs 500. A site will also be earmarked at five locations where empty cylinders can be dropped and refilled cylinders can be collected.

For refilling oxygen cylinders, the development authorities in Noida, Greater Noida and Yamuna Expressway had earlier been asked to evolve a mechanism to provide refilled cylinders to serious patients in home isolation. These are in place already.  Meanwhile, the administration announced on Friday that a new oxygen plant with a capacity of generating 8.5 tonne of Oxyegn has been set up at Noida Covid Hospital.
 

The number of beds will also be increased to 400 from the existing 240 at the hospital in the next 48 hours, officials said.  This was after private players came forward to help the administration during the ongoing Covid-19 battle. Besides, through CSR funds, corporates have agreed to provide more resources to the health department. IT giant HCL and Kent Ro Systems have started work on setting up oxygen plants at GB Nagar hospitals. 

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