Odisha sends 250 tonne oxygen to worst-hit States

By Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR :  A day after Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik assured Prime Minister Narendra Modi to assist needy states with oxygen, 15 tankers containing over 250 tonne medical oxygen have been despatched to totally different cities within the nation by the State authorities within the final 24 hours. 

The tankers have been despatched from Rourkela, Jajpur and Angul districts to Visakhapatnam, Hyderabad, Indore, Pune, Mumbai and Nagpur. Official sources mentioned three extra tankers of medical oxygen will probably be despatched to Visakhapatnam from Angul and Jajpur in addition to, one tanker of oxygen will depart for Ghaziabad from Jajpur on Friday night time, mentioned an official.

Three Indian Air Force planes additionally airlifted eight empty oxygen tankers from Hyderabad and arrived at Biju Patnaik International Airport right here for refill on Friday. “One flight arrived with an empty oxygen tanker and the second flight with three empty tankers reached during the day. The third flight arrived with four empty oxygen tankers at 8.30 pm on Friday,” mentioned the official. The tankers will return by street after loading oxygen from numerous vegetation in Odisha. 

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had additionally mentioned that his authorities is making efforts to airlift its enhanced quota of oxygen provide from Odisha.  A devoted hall has been set-up by Odisha Police to make sure unhindered motion of medical oxygen provides. Odisha authorities has shaped a particular cell beneath ADG YK Jethwa as its nodal officer to supervise the provision operations.

Bhubaneswar-Cuttack Police Commissioner, IGs, DIGs and SPs/DCPs are supervising the motion of the medical oxygen beneath their respective jurisdictions. “The police are making special traffic arrangements to ensure smooth supply of medical oxygen. The special cell is primarily coordinating with Rourkela, Jharsuguda, Angul and Jajpur SPs as they are the loading points of the medical oxygen,” mentioned Jethwa.

POLICE AID

Dedicated hall to make sure unhindered motion of oxygen tankers

Special cell monitoring scenario at oxygen loading factors

Bhubaneswar-Cuttack Police Commissioner, IGs, DIGs and SPs/DCPs supervising motion of the medical oxygen