A temporary Covid-19 treatment centre with 1,500 oxygen beds, billed as one of the largest such facilities in the country, has come up in Kochi after the district administration joined hands with Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL).
The temporary Covid-19 hospital was erected at a school run by BPCL at the premises of its plant at Ambalamugal in Kochi. The first phase of the facility was made functional on Sunday, under which 100 beds were made operational.
The highlight of the centre is that the BPCL Kochi refinery is directly supplying oxygen from its plant to the beds through a dedicated 1-km stainless steel pipeline. The refinery has the capacity to generate 12 tonnes of gaseous oxygen per day.
