Mobile oxygen-production stations provide oxygen cylinders to hospitals in need in HCM City

HCM CITY— Ministry of National Defence’s Air Defence - Air Force is using two container trucks as mobile oxygen-production stations to meet oxygen demand of hospitals treating COVID- 一 九 patients in HCM City.  

The trucks are equipped with machines for oxygen production and a back-up generator. Each station can produce  四0- 六0 oxygen cylinders with pressure swing adsorption (PSA) technology.  

The stations have two drivers and four others in charge of producing oxygen. They travel to hospitals treating COVID- 一 九 patients to provide oxygen in time.

The Air Defence - Air Force also has a A 四 一 plant with three liquid oxygen production lines with a capacity of nearly  四, 三00 oxygen cylinders of  四0 litres each.

On August  一 八, the plant’s  一,000 oxygen cylinders were sent to  一 二 field hospitals in the city.

The city Department of Information and Co妹妹unications on August  二 六 launched the phone app Oxygen  二 四 七 to help COVID- 一 九 patients and their relatives as well as health officials contact hospitals that have empty beds with oxygen cylinders and ventilators.

The app helps the Department of Health and the city Steering Co妹妹ittee for COVID- 一 九 Prevention and Control to dispatch oxygen cylinders to hospitals facing a shortage.

The app is available on IOS and Android platforms. Its database is connected with the Department of Health’s management system which is updated frequently.  

Priority for oxygen, medicine

Speaking at a press meeting on August  二 六, Phan Công Bằng, deputy head of the city Department of Transport, said that vehicles transporting oxygen cylinders and medical equipment were being given priority for travel on the roads.

Lê Mạnh Hà of the city police said that vehicle drivers must have transportation contracts for equipment and medicine, and a business registration licence.  

People in the city who have an appointment for re-examinations or vaccinations are allowed to travel without a travel permission document.

The city police are not providing travel permission documents to charity organisations and individuals who want to provide meals and food to people in need because there is a risk of virus transmission.

They can contact the city’s special task teams who will help transport meals and food. — VNS