The first ‘Oxygen Express’ train to Tamil Nadu carrying four containers of 80 metric tonnes of medical oxygen departed from Durgapur, West Bengal on the night of May 12 and arrived at the Tondiarpet container depot in Chennai early on May 14.

Southern Railway officials said the train which arrived here from Durgapur on Friday was sent to Tamil Nadu to address the demand for medical oxygen amid the COVID-19 surge in the State.

Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said the first oxygen express reached Tamil Nadu for COVID-19 patients in Tamil Nadu.

Tamil Nadu Medical and Family Welfare Minister M Subramanian, his cabinet colleague Sekar Babu, Health Department Secretary J Radhakrishnan, and senior government officials formally received the oxygen express train at Tondiarpet Yard in the wee hours of Friday.

 Subramanian said Chief Minister M K Stalin was holding talks with the Centre on a daily basis to address the issues arising due to the COVID-19 surge in Tamil Nadu.

''Under one such initiative is the oxygen express train which has arrived from West Bengal today. It has 80 metric tonnes of medical oxygen and after unloading, it will be distributed to various districts in the state...,'' he said.

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