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Daltonganj, Jan 16: Prakash Chand Jain Sewa Sadan in Daltonganj on Sunday gets an oxygen plant.
There are in all 358 registered private medical hubs from laboratories to hospitals alone in Palamu but none has any oxygen plant barring this Sewa Sadan which draws patients from UP and Bihar as well.
This Sewa Sadan is first of its kind in the whole Palamu commissionerate comprising three districts Garhwa, Latehar and Palamu which has now a functional pressure swing adsorption medical oxygen plant with a 90 litre of medical oxygen production per minute.
It was inaugurated by DC Palamu Shashi Ranjan who concede that this Sewa Sadan which is catering to the medical needs of the poor at the bare minimum cost is not on the panel of the Ayushman Bharat Yojna.
DC said he had directed his officials to empanel it and he said he now believes things must have progressed for the empanelment of this health hub.
Suresh Jain general secretary of the Sewa Sadan said he has earmarked space for 20 beds for dedicated covid treatment but we look forward to the government to give us a team of doctors and others for treating the covid patients here.
“We have 90 beds for the paediatric ICU besides four dozen other beds and now medical oxygen is available everywhere here in this Sewa Sadan,” Suresh Jain said.
MCKS a philanthropy trust fund of Bangaluru has aided in the setting up of this oxygen plant which has cost around 23 lakhs.
A functionary of the MCKS trust fund Ayushman Jain gave a heart touching speech on this occasion asking everyone to spare time for the society and floated a coinage ‘social currency’.
He asked everyone in the modest gathering of the doctors and elites of the town in this inaugural ceremony to go for social currency than for the monetary currency.
“At a time like this Sewa Sadan getting equipped with medical oxygen plant is matter of great relief,” said civil surgeon Palamu Dr Anil Kumar.
Veteran doctors namely Dr R N Singh, Dr Arun Shukla, noted chartered accountant Saras Jain and scores of the elites of the town were present in the inauguration.
