NEW DELHI: The Indian Railways has been able to deliver over 10,000 MT of oxygen across the country, and the service now covers 13 states, Railway Board Chairman Suneet Sharma said on Monday.
''We reached the milestone of carrying 10,000 tonnes of liquid medical oxygen on Monday morning on 'Oxygen Express'... 'Oxygen Express' delivered oxygen to 13 states,'' Sharma said.
Noting 800 MT oxygen has been transported on a daily basis, Sharma said that 269 Oxygen Expresses have delivered 10,302 MT of LMO to different states since April 19. He also said that the railways also made ramps at several stations to load oxygen tankers onto the railway wagons.
Sharma also said that the railways has 4,176 isolation coaches which have been stationed at several stations in different states on the request of state governments.
Criss-crossing the country, the Indian Railways is picking up oxygen from places like Hapa and Mundra in the west and Rourkela, Durgapur, Jamshedpur and Angul in the east, and then delivering it to Uttarakhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Haryana, Telangana, Punjab, Kerala, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh in complex operational route planning scenarios, Sharma said.
He said that on the request of the Delhi government, the railways provided 50 coaches at Shakur Basti railway station and 25 coaches at Anand Vihar railway station. At Shakur Basti, five patients have been admitted in the isolation ward coaches.
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