Vizag Diesel Loco Shed's feat in hour of distress

Visakhapatnam With the spike in cases of Covid-19 in the second wave, there is acute shortage of life saving equipments in the market. Keeping in mind the need of such instruments, Diesel Loco Shed (DLS) of Waltair Division in the East Coast Railway Zone has taken a useful life saving project to meet the demand.

The DLS has taken challenge of non-availability of medically used regulator and oxygen flow meter in the market and started fabrication by modifying the industrial oxygen regulator and provision of in-house design humidifier to save the lives of oxygen support patients. Under the guidance of Divisional Railway Manager Chetan Kumar Srivastava, DLS Visakhapatnam has modified the existing industrial oxygen regulator to meet the requirement for supplying oxygen through an in-house fabricated humidifier that will be used for supplying oxygen to the patients to save their lives in case of urgency and non-availability of regular oxygen flow meter.

The equipment was fabricated in-house under the monitoring of Senior Divisional Mechanical Engineer (Diesel) Santosh Kumar Patro, by utilising available components as per the requirements of Divisional Railway Hospital, Waltair.

The device was successfully tested at the Railway Hospital for its workability and to meet the urgency. Fifteen such devices were handed over to Divisional Railway Hospital, Waltair within one day. The cost incurred for such modification of one set device is about Rs. 475 (excluding industrial oxygen regulator).