The two medical oxygen producing plants installed at Hospital II in Talara have already come into operation, the
EsSalud recalled that these teams had been sent from Lima on April 16 to meet the high demand for this input in the northern province.
EsSalud Piura Assistance Network Manager Jose Cespedes explained that one of the infrastructures featuring a dual system is already
supplying medical oxygen to cylinders for the triage area.
Meanwhile, the other plant is connected to the embedded oxygen system and supplies the input to 20 additional beds in the hospitalization area, which relies on an
oxygen network system.
"The plants are 100% implemented and are already operational. One can fill 50 10-cubic-meter cylinders and the other, which supplies (oxygen) directly to the network, can provide oxygen for 20 patients. In five days, the installation of 100% of the plants has been completed," the physician explained.
Cespedes commented that the current demand ranges from 1,200 to 1,600 cubic meters per day due to the slight increase in cases registered in the area.
"Although, as EsSalud, we are making the greatest efforts to reduce COVID-19 cases in Talara, the population must support us,
protect themselves and not lower the guard; we must join forces to control this dangerous disease together," he commented.
Hospital II in Talara relies on more than 95 backup oxygen cylinders and one isotank container of 10 tons that supplies oxygen and provides care to hospitalized patients. It also has 20 concentrators.
In this sense, Dr. Cespedes pointed out that medical oxygen is guaranteed at Hospital II. In addition, he specified that insured and uninsured patients continue receiving treatment.