Another oxygen plant commissioning took place yesterday at Lira Hospital in Uganda!
Yesterday, we commissioned, on behalf of the Global Fund, the oxygen plant and building at Lira Regional Referral Hospital in Uganda. Lira RRH, a public hospital funded by the Uganda Ministry of Health, serves nine districts and Lira City in the Lango sub-region with a population of approximately 2.5 million people.
The Lira Hospital is one of 4 lots in Uganda where i+solutions has done oxygen construction work. The plants in Mbarara Hospital and Mbale Hospital were already handed over to the hospital administration last month. The Hoyma Hospital is in the final stages of construction and will be commissioned next week.
The construction process from start to finish took only 4 months at the Lira Hospital, which shows that great communication with all stakeholders involved pays off when it comes to speed up the work. Thanks to the technical expertise at the Uganda Ministry of Health, we were able to move so fast. The same goes for the collaboration with Build Health Life (BHL) who executed the construction work excellently. Our oxygen plant supplier Sinopharm International works regularly with BHL in East Africa, which allows for smooth operations.
The construction process from start to finish knows many steps: from requisition to site assessment, to scope of work, to develop the Bill of Quantities, to order placement, to actual construction, plant delivery, installation, commissioning and handover. Excellent communication between all stakeholders in each phase is of the utmost importance.
As part of the commissioning process the oxygen plant, local hospital staff are trained in the proper operation and first line maintenance of the plant. The plants at Lira Hospital have double capacity and can simultaneously fill medical oxygen cylinders as well as supply oxygen directly to the hospital via the medical gas piping system.
We want to thank our counterparts at The Global Fund, the hospital management, our supplier Sinopharm International, and partner Build Health Life and all the people on site who worked hard to get this done in record time.
The Global Fund’s oxygen project, part of the Covid-19 Response Mechanism is huge, important and impactful. i+solutions is currently working on delivering 166 sites in over 30 countries.
Needless to say, yesterday’s commissioning is a great step forward in health care quality for the 2.5 million Ugandans served by this hospital.
See our post on LinkedIn for more pictures related to the Lira commissioning.
