It might seem that the tranquility of Elviro Miranda Pérez, head of Electro-medicine at the Roberto Rodríguez Provincial Hospital, in Morón, is routine, in the midst of the tests of the second oxygen generation plant installed there.

It would be necessary to go back in time to the fateful July and August of last year, when the four hundred beds were not enough and even less the medicinal gases. "My chest felt tight, because I knew what we had up there," and he points his finger at the Intensive Care Unit.

The two oxygen plants, donated at the end of last year, were recently installed, and the day Invasor visited them, the tests of the second had been postponed due to the admission of "a child with a tracheostomy, we cannot risk”.

The work to put it into operation has brought together the work of the Construction and Specialized Assembly Company, Industrial Gases of Cuba, Public Health and the Integral Automation Company. From the latter, Jorge Luis Huerta Cruz, main specialist, explains details to Invasor.

“Due to their demand, it was decided to install two oxygen plants in the hospital. Each one has a flow of 30 cubic meters (m³) per hour, that is, 60,000 liters per hour. They work from an artificial zeolite filter, and the oxygen has reached the rooms with a purity between 95 and 97 percent”.

“It should be noted —says Jorge Luis— that the equipment has a five-year guarantee, working 24 hours a day, and that we also have spare parts and materials for maintenance. All this, together with the fact that it is new technology, is a good prognosis.”