Second Oxygen Express for Delhi will carry the life-saving gas from West Bengal’s Durgapur. Earlier the first train arrived in Delhi from Chhattisgarh carrying 70 tonnes of liquid medical oxygen.
The Railway Minister Piyush Goyal has confirmed the news tweeting that “Oxygen tanks are being loaded from Durgapur, West Bengal, on Oxygen Express to provide Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) for patients in Delhi.” This will be the first Oxygen Express which will carry the oxygen in containers provided by Singapore. The second train will carry 120 tonnes of medical oxygen for the oxygen-starved national capital. The railway ministry also said that Haryana will receive its first and second Oxygen Express soon. Two trains, one from Rourkela to Haryana carrying 47.11 tonnes LMO and another one from Angul to Haryana carrying approximately 32 tonnes are on their way.
The Haryana government had earlier sent empty tankers on a cargo flight from Hindon to Bhubaneshwar, and loaded tankers from Angul were dispatched to Faridabad by rail.
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