Bhubaneswar, April 30: Two Empty Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) tankers that were unloaded from Cargo Flight, on Thursday evening, have been loaded with 32 MT LMO at Tata Bhushan Steel Plant at Angul and dispatched to Haryana by train, on Friday morning with RoRo service of Indian Railways.
The East coast Railway ( ECoR) has taken all precautions for safe running of Oxygen Express Special Trains from its jurisdiction and sending these trains at the earliest. Railways Oxygen Express continues transporting life-saving Oxygen on mission mode towards different destinations and brings relief to different States.
On request of Telengana Government, Another Oxygen Express Special having five empty tankers from Secunderabad has also been placed for loading at Tata Bhushan Steel Plant at Angul, said an ECoR statement.
ECoR General Manager Vidya Bhushan asked officials to take it as a challenge to supply Oxygen at the earliest during the crisis for life-saving of patients. ECoR is in full preparedness for providing oxygen transportation services to all the states in need, it added.