medical grade oxygen weighing 4.82 KL to nearby Tirunelveli medical college hospital (TVMCH) here on Thursday.

The district collector who is the monitoring committee chairman appointed by the state government on the directive of the Supreme court said that the quality check of the 4.82 KL of oxygen was done in the quality control laboratory within the Sterlite premises.

The collector said that the liquid oxygen was moved to Tirunelveli Medical College hospital under the supervision of the officials of the Tamil Nadu Medical Service Corporation (TNMSC). The district collector also said that TNMSC will allot the subsequent consignments by the evening of Thursday.

Sterlite Copper CEO Pankaj Kumar said in a statement that “My team members and me are honoured that our facility and efforts are being directly put into helping save lives. We promise to make every possible effort to ensure that there is continuous production of oxygen from our plant to mitigate this  crisis.”

The support received from our employees and community also played a critical role in helping ready the plant for immediate production, the statement said.

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