Oxygen Crisis

Bhutan will supply 40 MT liquid oxygen to India everyday from a new plant being set up at the Motanga Industrial Estate.

At least 15 Tankers carrying 250 MT of Oxygen from various steel plants in Rourkela, Jajpur and Angul districts in Odisha have been dispatched to various States in the last 24 hours.

The Armed Forces Medical Service (AFMS) has decided to import oxygen generation plants and containers from Germany to cater to the shortage.

25 'sickest' patients died in the last 24 hours at Ganga Ram Hospital while lives of another 60 patients are at risk. Delhi needs Oxygen.

Naveen Patnaik had today called up his Delhi counterpart and assured him complete support in facilitating the lifting of Oxygen from Odisha.

Scarcity of Oxygen has been reported from hospitals across the States that have reported high number of Covid-19 cases.