Following the reports of black marketing of oxygen cylinders in the city, the government has deployed officials of Revenue and Commercial Taxes at various gas refilling plants to monitor the supply to hospitals and to ensure prevention of further misuse of the gas which became an essential part of the treatment of patients infected with the coronavirus during the second wave of the pandemic.
Out of several gas plants in the city and suburban areas, one such facility is located at Gagan Pahad area under Rajendranagar where a team of Commercial and Revenue officials have been deployed under the supervision of MRO Rajendranagar K.Chandra Shekhar to keep track over the transportation of oxygen cylinders to hospitals in order to prevent any sort of misuse of the gas which became essential for the treatment of covid-19 patients due to outbreak of second wave of the deadliest viral infection.
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“Only two weeks before a team of total six officials from Revenue and Commercial Tax Department has been deployed here at Surendra Industrial Gases at Gagan Pahad to monitor the supply of cylinders to various hospitals and the primary purpose is to ensure the adequate oxygen supply hospital and to prevent the black marketing in the city as demand of oxygen goes exponentially high these days due to chaotic situation created out of second wave of coronavirus. We are regularly keeping an eye over the supply of cylinders to various hospitals by day to day reckoning,” informed K.Chandra Shakher, Mandal Revenue Officer Rajendranagar and newly appointed supervisor at Surendra Industrial Gases at Gagan Pahad.
“As per the orders we are regularly monitoring the opening and closing account of the quantum of oxygen being supplied during the day and left over in the refilling plant at the end of the day. The oxygen cylinders are being supplied to the hospitals only after taking into consideration the requirement of the hospitals besides maintaining day to day records, informed B.Raju. Deputy Tahsildar, Rajendranagar.
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“We are procuring the LMO (Liquid Medical Oxygen) from Rourkela, Odessa. After getting the liquid form of oxygen we turned it into gaseous form before refilling it into cylinders in our plant. Earlier we used to supply the oxygen cylinder only for Industrial purpose but in the wake of the second wave of coronavirus and the need arise out of a chaotic situation wherein patients are largely counted on the oxygen, the supply route has taken a diversion from industrial purpose to medical treatment. Now we are supplying 400 to 500 oxygen cylinders every day to atleast 25 hospitals in the city. Daily we are receiving a request from 13 to 16 hospitals and accordingly supplying the cylinders. Even the officials are monitoring the refilling and supplying process in the plant now,” informed Naveen, Owner Surendra Industrial Gases at Gagan Pahad.
