Bisnis.com, JAKARTA - The Minister of Industry, Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita, sees the importance of helping the Ministry of Health in the proactive search or procurement of oxygen concentrators.Purchasing an oxygen concentrator is the best option because it is more efficient and does not require the supply of oxygen, oxygen cylinders, and isotanks.Oxygen concentrators can produce oxygen and distribute directly to Covid-19 patients at the treatment site."The Ministry of Industry always encourages domestic industries to fulfill oxygen concentrator needs. For example, encouraging innovation in the 5 liter per minute capacity oxygen concentrator developed by PT Yogya Presisi Tekhnikatama Industri so that it can be mass produced," he said in a press release, Friday (9/8/2021). ).Agus said that oxygen concentrators can help non-ICU Covid-19 patients, for that his party targets to immediately bring in at least 20,000 oxygen concentrator units.To date, the Ministry of Industry has made an inventory of 8,600 oxygen concentrator units, including contributions from PT Indorama, Temasek, Daihatsu-Isuzu-TSM, PT Mitsubishi, and PT Obsidian Stainless Steel.In addition, the Ministry of Industry is also procuring oxygen concentrators through the reallocation of the Ministry of Industry's APBN.The Ministry of Industry also targets to immediately bring in as many deployable oxygen concentrator systems (DOCS) as possible.Currently, 9 units of DOCS purchased with the reallocation of the Ministry of Industry's APBN will soon arrive in Indonesia.Each of these units can supply oxygen for 700 Covid-19 patients per day."This tool is very suitable to be placed in areas far from the oxygen distribution route," said Agus.Meanwhile, the Ministry of Industry guarantees the production of additional oxygen so that the total daily supply becomes 2,622.9 tons per day, 132 oxygen tanker trucks, 15,906 oxygen cylinders, 8,100 oxygen concentrator units, and 9 deployable oxygen concentrator systems.Check out other news about the topic of this article, here:Join and get analysis of economic and business information via your email.