Grasys Oxygen Concentrators Help in Fight Against COVID-19 in Kirov Region. News on Russia 1 Channel

The first throughput the region medical oxygen concentrator in modular container has become available in Kirov City Hospital No. 5.

1000 liters of oxygen per minute, over a ton per day. The system generates medical oxygen from atmosphere air, which implies that such system enables to be independent of liquid medical oxygen supplies.

“Our medical facility administers 134 patients every day, where 130 beds are equipped with oxygen points and there is a possibility to support patients suffering from the new coronavirus infection with an acute need in oxygen,” explained Pavel Kazakov, Chief Medical Officer of Kirov City Hospital No. 5.

The new equipment will ensure uninterrupted and adequate oxygen supply to all hospital inpatient departments. Not only COVID-19 patients require oxygen, it is also used to treat surgical, therapeutic, cardiac, neurological and narcological diseases.

The air is allowed to pass immediately into the unit through filters followed by running through absorbers where it is separated into oxygen, carbon dioxide and nitrogen. The treated oxygen penetrates through dryers with further pumping into tanks to be delivered to hospital beds.

Oxygen plant generates oxygen from outside air and delivers it to the premises to treat patients. The air is passed through filters directly into the unit, passes through the absorbers, where it is divided into oxygen, carbon dioxide and nitrogen. Purified oxygen passes through dryers and is pumped into receivers, which deliver it to hospital beds.

Link to the GTRK Vyatka reporting: https://youtu.be/d8i_YR5Pnng

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