Indian Railways' Oxygen Express To Augment Supplies To Bangladesh

Oxygen Express to enhance provides to Bangladesh

Indian Railways' Oxygen Express is all set to embark in the direction of Bangladesh, which might be the primary time  ever that will probably be going to a neighbouring nation, carrying 200 metric tonnes of liquid medical oxygen (LMO).

On July 24, an indent was positioned at Tata in Chakradharpur division beneath South Eastern Railway to move 200 metric tonnes of LMO to Benapole, Bangladesh.

Indian Railways had begun working the Oxygen Expresses on April 24, 2021 to move oxygen cylinders throughout the nation and particularly to these states which have been going through acute scarcity throughout the second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic.

More than 35,000 metric tonnes of LMO was transported to fifteen states and round 480 Oxygen Expresses have been operationalised, official sources mentioned.