By APN Reporter
apearlnews.com
Mbarara Referral Hospital on Monday launched the construction site where a new oxygen plant will be constructed.
This according to Francis Ojom, the senior hospital administrator will enable the hospital equipped with enough oxygen.
The plant which has been launched today is financed by Ministry of Health in conjunction with global health collaborative and it will cost over 800million.
Halson Kagure the Mbarara Referral Hospital Public Relations Officer says that at the peak of Covid-19 pandemic the hospital would get oxygen cylinders from private services providers yet Mbarara Referral Hospital has been supplying other hospitals in the region.
According to Public Relations Officer Kagure, this new plant once completed will be an addition to the already existing plants in the hospital. This according to Kagure will see the hospital increase on the number of cylinders they have been distributing to other centers in the region.
Dr Celestine Barigye Mbarara RRH boss said commended government’s intervention and Global Health collaborative to support the regional center of excellence.
To Dr Barigye, Oxygen can seem to be available to every man kind but it’s a necessity to critically ill patients who can survive by resuscitation.
Dr Barigye who also doubles as an international health specialist added that installing enough oxygen plants is one way of planning for unforeseeable.
However, Dr Barigye warned the contractor against doing substandard structure where oxygen tanks will be put.
Anton Muganzi, the coordinator clinical activities between Mbarara Referral Hospital and Global Health collaborative thanked two institutions for supporting the referral hospital.
Apparently, two oxygen plants at Mbarara referral hospital can produce over 21000 litres of oxygen per hour but the new plant will be producing 28.3 m3( cubic centimeters) higher than two plants already in place.
The plant will be established at infectious diseases treatment center formerly put in place to handle Covid-19 patients.
