Tata group to build 400 oxygen plants
By MYBRANDBOOK
According to reports, Tata group will airlift 60 cryogenic oxygen tankers from overseas and build around 400 oxygen generating units that can be used by hospitals in smaller towns amid the pandemic. Besides, the group makes around 5,000 beds available for COVID-care with its various firms coming together in the fight against the second wave of the COVID-19.
The group is also reskilling some of its staff, especially within Indian Hotels, which has converted many of its hotels into COVID-care facilities to prevent a shortage of support staff for the patients.
"As we speak, we are making available around 900 MT of oxygen per day, that is Tata Steel alone. Our people in Tata Steel identified that the bottleneck is in transportation. We need special cryogenic containers. India doesn't have it. So, one just has to find them outside and get them airlifted. We have identified and are under process to bring almost about 60 such containers. About 14 of them have already come in, and there are more on the way. In this, we are working with our partners like Linde with whom we have a very good relationship," said, Tata Sons President Infrastructure, Defence & Aerospace and Global Corporate affairs, Banmali Agrawala.
Agrawala also lauded the government for providing planes from the Air Force to bring some of the containers. Stating that the second wave of COVID-19 is different with its severity and suddenness hitting the country, Agrawala said the solutions to it are also different and the group identified the shortage of oxygen and the bottleneck of logistics for its transportation as one of the primary challenges to overcome.
For this, he said the group has partnered with DRDO to take the latter's design to generate oxygen using pressure swing adsorption (PSA) technology to build oxygen generating units. The official said the group firms of the conglomerate have come together in order to play their part to meet the challenges faced by the country at the moment due to the pandemic.
From an infrastructure perspective, he said Indian Hotels has converted many of its hotels and hotel rooms, making available 1,500 beds for the purpose of taking care of COVID-19 patients, while Tata Trusts have done another 1,500 beds with the hospitals they work with and Tata Projects have added another 400 odd critical beds through newly built or modified existing hospitals.
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