Global Omicron Wave Once Again Overwhelms Health Facilities & Health Workers

05

Jan

Astha Gupta

A fresh wave of the highly contagious Omicron Covid 19 strain has swept across the world leaving millions of people struggling each day to overcome it. The new variant has seen a renewed surge in infections across Europe, America, and Australia leaving millions helpless as they cannot overcome the flu.

Countries that have successfully contained earlier versions of Covid are struggling to cope with its spread while new countries are also getting affected.

France has set a new record of over 2 lakh cases recorded in the last 24 hours, while the UK also sees 1,30,000 new infections. Meanwhile, the US also recorded 5.1 lakh daily cases, highest ever since the pandemic began. The count is continuing to rise across the EU and US.

The new variant has also resulted in high hospitalisation overwhelming medical facilities and health workers, even in countries with high vaccination numbers. Cities including New York and London are seeing increasing hospitalisation. Similar trends are witnessed across cities in Australia.

OMICRON CASES ALSO RISING IN INDIA

The trend of Covid surge, believed to be triggered from Omicron, spread to Delhi and Mumbai on Wednesday with a spike in the number of cases. Infections have risen in Delhi by over 86 percent with 923 new cases compared to the previous day. Mumbai recorded a massive jump with 2,510 new cases which was 809 on Monday. Maharashtra, which reported 3,900 fresh cases, highest in the country, recorded 20 deaths.

Surge in the number of Covid positive cases have forced several states to bring back night curfews. Most of the states including- Maharashtra, Haryana, Karnataka, Gujarat, UP, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Assam and others have announced night curfews. Delhi has sounded ‘yellow alert’ which includes restrictions like night curfew, closure of schools and colleges, opening of non-essential shops based on an odd even basis, halved seating capacity in Metros and buses. Mumbai has also announced night curfew and banned gatherings in public places on Dec 31st and New Year.

GOI LAUNCHES NOSP TO TRAIN HEALTH CARE WORKERS

Meanwhile the GOI has launched the National Oxygen Stewardship Programme (NOSP) will be implemented by the National Health Systems Resource Centre (NHSRC) with support from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). The programme will involve training of health care workers in public and private sector hospitals, diagnostic laboratories, blood banks and ancillary departments on rational utilisation of medical oxygen.

The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) will later assess their performance and sanction payments for their services.

India will also conduct a survey to assess the current status of medical oxygen in hospitals, besides addressing bottlenecks that are lessening its availability and stopping it from being used wastefully.

The centre has also set up an OxyCare dashboard that disseminates information on the available oxygen stock for its better distribution.

GROWING DEMAND FOR OXYGEN PLANTS

Even the global demand for oxygen plants has increased due to Covid epidemic. The latest global outbreak of new corona variant Omicron has put urgency in boosting health care facilities and infrastructures. Adequate and abundant supply of medical oxygen is one of the most important infrastructure requirements that government authorities across the world are implementing.

Bhartiya Cryogas Limited is the leading Indian manufacturer and supplier of oxygen plants, dealing in large capacity O2 plant manufacturing systems for making oxygen from air and industrial gases from air separation units.

The company offers single, dual and multiple effect design Air Separation Plants which are particularly useful to process natural gas (Methane) and other hydrocarbon gases. Our O2 plants have a wide range of applications including petrochemical industry, sewage treatment plants, distilleries, sugar mills and pulp & paper mills. Some of its applications consist of H2S removal from natural gas in Oil & Gas industry, Ethylene production in Chemical & Petrochemical industry, Washing of SCM gases, and production of calcium carbide at power plants.

India's top manufacturers and suppliers of oxygen plant, the company also offers turnkey solutions for small, medium and large size businesses. Oxygen plants are the most effective way to package oxygen in cylinders for reuse in medicine, welding, food packaging, scuba diving etc.

There are several types of plants fabricated and supplied by Bhartiya Cryogas. They are:

CRYOGENICS

1) Medium Pressure Oxygen/Nitrogen Gas/Liquid Plants

2) Low Pressure Oxygen/Nitrogen Gas/Liquid Plants

PRESSURE SWING ADSORPTION (PSA)

1) PSA/VPSA Oxygen/Nitrogen Generators

INDUSTRIAL GAS PLANTS

1) Hi-tech Acetylene plants

2) Nitrous Oxide plants

3) CO2 plants

4) Cylinder Filling Station