Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) has decided to expeditiously release new electricity connections or approve extension of load (on LT/HT voltage) for PSA (pressure swing adsorption) oxygen generation plants to be installed at various healthcare facilities of Punjab, including medical colleges, district hospitals, sub-divisional hospitals and other Covidcare facilities.
Such new connections or applications for extension of load would be given overriding priority over other pending applications.
This decision has been taken by PSPCL management on a communication received from the Principal Secretary to Government of Punjab, Health and Family Welfare Department, which had stated that the state had to face an acute shortage of medical oxygen in the hospitals during the second wave of Covid-19 and had to extend its recourses to the maximum to procure oxygen from outside the state. As a measure to enhance the production of oxygen within the state, PSA oxygen generation plants were being installed in various healthcare facilities.
