Oxygen plant to be set up at Sylhet’s Osmani Medical College Hospital

Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital will be turned into a 2000-bed hospital from the existing 900-bed and a medical oxygen plant will be set up at the hospital to handle the growing number Covid-19 patients in the district.

The oxygen plant will have a capacity to supply 10,000 liters of oxygen.

The decisions were taken yesterday at a virtual meeting of the management committee of the hospital with Foreign Minister A K Abdul Momen in the chair.

It was decided that the 2nd unit of the hospital will be set up at the premises of the Infectious Diseases Hospital adjacent to Shahi Eidgah in Sylhet.

It was informed at the meeting that the Public Works Department will visit the site and take necessary steps for the construction of the hospital.

The meeting was also informed that the construction of a 1200-bed hospital in the Sylhet University campus is in progress.

Sylhet city mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury, Selina Momen, wife of the Foreign Minister and a member of the management committee of the medical college hospital, Sylhet divisional commissioner, police commissioner, director of MAG Osmani Medical College and Hospital, among others, joined the meeting.