Oxygen Express | Delhi 4 oxygen tankers to reach Delhi on Monday night in Oxygen Express
New Delhi/IBNS: The first Oxygen Express train routed for Delhi with as many as four oxygen tankers will reach the capital city on Monday, the Railway Ministry said Sunday.
Tankers are being loaded on rail wagons in Chhattisgarh and are likely to reach Delhi by Monday night, the ministry said.
"One oxygen Express train carrying four tankers (around 70 Metric tonnes of LMO) will depart tonight for Delhi from Raigarh, Chattisgarh. It will contribute in fulfilling the oxygen need of Delhi," the ministry of railways wrote on Twitter.
One oxygen Express train carrying four tankers (around 70 Metric tonnes of LMO) will depart tonight for Delhi from Raigarh, Chattisgarh. It will contribute in fulfilling the oxygen need of Delhi.
— Ministry of Railways (@RailMinIndia) April 25, 2021
Railway Board chairman Suneet Sharma said the railways has prepared plans to transport medical oxygen from Angul, Kalingnagar, Rourkela and Raigarh to the national capital and the National Capital Region (NCR) region.
He added that the Delhi government has been advised to get road tankers ready to obtain the oxygen from railway tankers.
Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has been flagging depleting oxygen stocks in various private and government hospitals in Delhi.
On Saturday, 20 Covid-19 patients died at Jaipur Golden Hospital in the national capital due to oxygen-shortage.
Earlier, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal also wrote to the chief ministers of all the states and Union Territories seeking their help in meeting the oxygen-shortfall in Delhi hospitals.
“I am writing to all CMs requesting them to provide oxygen to Delhi if they have spare. Though Central govt. is also helping us, the severity of corona is such that all available resources are proving inadequate,” Kejriwal tweeted.
However, Union health minister Harsh Vardhan on Saturday said that Delhi has been given more oxygen than asked by chief minister Arvind Kejriwal to treat the critically-ill Covid-19 patients and now it is up to the AAP government to use it judiciously.
“Delhi has been allotted more than the (oxygen) quota they had asked for, and Delhi CM even thanked the PM for that yesterday... Now to rationalise the quota in a timely manner and the responsibility to finely plan it lies with the state government,” Harsh Vardhan was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
"Earlier, the CM said they are having problem in the transportation of oxygen after which central government assured they will ensure unhindered transportation. The government also assured that strict action will be taken against those who try to create hindrance in transportation," the Union minister told ANI.
The Delhi High Court also reprimanded the Kejriwal government for not acting proactively.
"It's not that you will just write and keep waiting. What is the nodal office doing? You had to speak to the suppliers in the last three days. You knew where the supply was coming from. Get in touch with the suppliers. We cannot help you at every moment," the court told the Delhi government.
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