KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah today (Tuesday) asserted that the oxygen plant at Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) could be made operational in three months as the COVID-19 infections continue to increase in the province.
The chief minister expressed his views during the meeting with renowned doctors in the province for devising a strategy for the COVID situation. “The PSM oxygen plant could be made operational with an amount of Rs 1 billion,” he added.
“We are ready to spend Rs1 billion for making the Steel Mill oxygen plant operational,” he said adding that with rising COVID cases, the country especially the province would need oxygen supplies.
CM Murad further said that improving oxygen supplies would help them in ensuring proper treatment to critical patients, whose lives could be at far more risk if shifted to ventilators.
He said the meeting with leading doctors was aimed at seeking guidance and assistance from them to tackle the rising virus cases. “We will be providing cold chains and vaccines to the hospitals so that people could be vaccinated on large scale,” he added.
Sharing alarming COVID-19 trends in the province, CM Sindh said that the positivity ratio has reached 18.02 percent in Hyderabad, followed by 12.87 percent in Karachi and 6.85 percent in Sukkur.
