Oxygen crisis: Govt imports 20 cryogenic tankers, allocates them to states
The
Centre has imported 20 cryogenic tankers of 10 MT and 20 MT capacity and
allocated them to states to address the shortage of oxygen tankers in the country as it deals with spiraling cases of COVID-19.
As
mapping of liquid medical oxygen (LMO) from manufacturing plants to different
states is a dynamic process and transportation of medical oxygen through
cryogenic tankers is becoming a bottleneck in making available LMO from the
eastern part of the country to other parts, 20 cryogenic ISO containers of
capacity 20 MT and 10 MT have been imported to augment the transportation of
oxygen, the Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday.
The
Ministry of Road Transport and Highways in consultation with the Department for
Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade under the overall guidance of the
Empowered Group-II have mapped the allocation of these containers to suppliers
in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Delhi, the ministry said
in the statement. Read More
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