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Health Ministry Installs Additional Oxygen Plant at Mulago Hospital amid Covid-19 Surge

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June 18, 2021
Health Ministry Installs Additional Oxygen Plant at Mulago Hospital amid Covid-19 Surge

Some of the equipment of the oxygen plant being installed at Mulago hospital.

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Mulago National Referral Hospital has received equipment to set up a fifth oxygen plant to meet the demand of Oxygen amid the surge of COVID-19 cases in the country.

The new plant will supplement the amount of oxygen produced by the already existing four plants. According to the hospital administrators, the new plant will produce 70 cubic meters of Oxygen which translates to 70,000 litres per hour or 1,166 litres per minute.

David Nuwamanya, the Mulago hospital principal administrator says the fifth plant will increase the amount of oxygen that the hospital can supply at the moment.

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With the new plant, the hospital will now be able to produce 4,165 litres of oxygen per minute. Previously, the hospital was producing 2,999 litres, which is more than its installed capacity of 2,083 litres of oxygen per minute. The plant’s equipment was procured by the Ministry of Health.

Despite the increase in oxygen produced, Nuwamanya says the hospital will still depend on using Oxygen cylinders since the majority of the admitted patients require large amounts of Oxygen that cannot be entirely supplied by the hospital’s central line. Currently, the hospital has been using more than 100 Oxygen cylinders.

At the moment, 175 patients are admitted at the COVID-19 treatment unit at Mulago. 90 percent of these, according to Niwamanya need oxygen in varying amounts.

In addition to receiving equipment for the new plant, the hospital received a tank of liquefied oxygen from Kenya. The oxygen will be purified and then used to fill a cylinder that will supply other parts of the hospital.

According to data from the health ministry, 1,004 cases are admitted to different treatment facilities in the country.

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