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Andhra Pradesh govt sends oxygen SOS to Centre
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Last Updated: May 06, 2021, 09:42 PM IST
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While the central government has now allotted 480 tonnes of medical oxygen to the state from various sources, the maximum consumption per day touched 550 tonnes (including government and private hospitals).
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Bids have been finalized for procurement of 15,000 oxygen concentrators, 10,000 D-type oxygen cylinders while purchase order has been issued for 250 new ventilators, highly-placed official sources said.
The Andhra Pradesh government on Thursday sent an SOS to the Centre seeking enhanced supply of medical oxygen as the demand is expected to touch 1,000 tonnes by May 15, officials said.
East Coast Railway carries 329 tonnes of Liquid Medical Oxygen through RoRo Service ANI | Updated: May 04, 2021 23:24 IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India] May 4 (ANI): To supply oxygen at the earliest during the current COVID upsurge for saving the life of patients, East Coast Railway has carried 329 tons of Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) from different Steel Plants in its jurisdiction towards different states like Maharashtra, Telengana, Haryana and Delhi.
In a release, East Coast Railways on Tuesday said that a total of 187 tonnes of LMO has already been transported from Tata Bhusan Siding in Angul along with 105 tonnes of LMO from Rashtriya ISpat Nigam Limited in Visakhapatnam and 31 tonnes of LMO from Jindal Steel in Angul.
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Sanitation workers in Bangalore, the Karnataka state capital, protested on Tuesday to demand personal protective equipment, such as masks and gloves, whilst at work. The sanitation workers, popularly known as pourakarmikas, are frontline employees, daily exposed to possible infection from COVID-19 and its variants.
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‘Fabrication work for cots is going on in full swing’
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The decision was taken at a review meeting with Steel Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, wherein he directed the RINL collective to build facilities for providing COVID care to 1,000 patients in Ukkunagaram.
‘Fabrication work for cots is going on in full swing’
For the first time, the Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited-Visakhpatnam Steel Plant (RINL-VSP) using all its internal resources and available facilities has embarked upon building a 1,000-bed COVID Care Hospital facility at its function hall Gurajada Kalakshetram in Ukkunagaram.
The decision was taken at a review meeting with Steel Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, wherein he directed the RINL collective to build facilities for providing COVID care to 1,000 patients in Ukkunagaram, township of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant.