JAKARTA - Minister of Health (Mekes) Budi Gunadi Sadikin formed a special task force unit related to the issue of supplying oxygen cylinders in hospitals in handling COVID-19 patients.
This step was taken following information that the supply of oxygen cylinders in several areas was running low. "We have identified oxygen needs in each hospital and formed oxygen task forces in various provinces," said Minister of Health Budi, Monday, July 5.
This task force, he said, will adjust the existing supply with the demand in each hospital and the logistics transportation to each hospital from the existing producers.
Minister of Health Budi has also prepared another strategy if the oxygen supply is still experiencing a shortage.
His party asked the Ministry of Industry to convert the oxygen that was previously allocated to the industry into a hospital, and if needed, it would import oxygen.
"The ministry of industry is committed to providing up to 90 percent of oxygen conversion from industry to medical. So around 575,000 tons per year will be allocated for medical purposes," said Budi.
He explained that the national oxygen production capacity is 866,000 tons per year, but now its utilization is only 75 percent.
"So the real production every year is 639,900 tons per year, of which about 75 percent is used for industries such as steel, nickel, smelters and then 458,588 tons, only 181,312 tons for medical," he said.
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