India now has 20,000 tonnes per day Oxygen capacity. 90% of it lying idle

There are 1,242 liquid medical oxygen tanks in hospitals across India with a capacity of 15,622 tonnes. This is a 104 % rise in the number of tanks and a 131% increase in storage capacity

India has enhanced its overall oxygen capacity including liquid medical oxygen (LMO), and pressure swing adsorption (PSA) plants to over 20,000 tonnes per day in the last one year after the second wave of Covid-19 infections led by the Delta variant wreaked havoc. This is almost a 20-fold increase.

Almost the entire of this infrastructure is now lying idle. Industry estimates the current demand for medical oxygen to be around 1,250-1,300 tonnes per day (tpd). Maintaining the PSA plants is a huge task at hand. Hospitals that had augmented capacities are now finding ways and means to make optimum use