Guyana’s Infectious Disease Hospital is expected to receive a boost in capacity with the installation of an oxygen plant through a donation.

The oxygen plant which has already been sourced but is yet to arrive in Guyana due to logistics challenges is being donated to the facility through the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh (HSS) and Sewa Guyana International.

During a joint press conference yesterday, it was revealed that the plant costs approximately US$150,000. Coordinator of the HSS, Ravi Dev stated that the effort to source and donate an oxygen plant to the Ministry of Health and by extension, the infectious disease facility at Liliendaal came after numerous discussions were held with the ministry.

Dev said that the Health Minister during a discussion asked whether they would be able to source one of the oxygen generating plants in an effort to reduce the cost of purchasing oxygen for Looking ahead he felt and he was p tunately, he felt that we would have rather than later,” the coordinator sa

Meanwhile, Minister of Health, D stated that one of the areas that the here thought that they might be cha the provision of adequate supplies facility which has the capacity to patients.

He explained that in discussions HSS team, the international chapt about the possibility of a donation a agreed that it was something that co

“The challenge that we have is the it’s really the logistics of getting it our side we have made the arrangem going to install we have put all thos