Standard Chartered has donated a Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) medical oxygen generation plant to TMSS Medical College & Rafatullah Community Hospital (TMC&RCH), a press release said Thursday.
The oxygen plant’s total installed capacity of608 litres/minute will meet the needs of approximately 180 patients.
The newly inaugurated medical oxygen plant is the second of three to be donated to community hospitals around Bangladesh by the Bank. Once installed in all three locations, the total oxygen generation potential of the plants will exceed 1700 litres/minute and will serve up to 400 patients per day.
Naser Ezaz Bijoy, CEO, SCB, said, “While the need for medical oxygen was felt profoundly during the Covid-19 pandemic, a steady supply of medical oxygenis a necessity for countless ailing individuals at all levels of the healthcare system.”
Professor Dr.Hosne-Ara Begum, founder and executive director, TMSS Medical College &Rafatullah Community Hospital, said, “The scarcity of oxygen during the pandemic created a tremendous challenge, but we continued our humanitarian efforts in service to humanity.”
EnamulHuque, MD, head of client coverage, corporate, commercial & institutional banking, SCB; Bitopi Das Chowdhury, head of corporate affairs, brand & marketing, SCB; and A F M Shahinul Islam, executive director, Bangladesh Bank, Bogura Office were also present in the inauguration of the PSA Medical Oxygen Generation Plant at the TMC&RCH premises in Bogura.
