Covid19 National Telangana

63.6 tonnes of oxygen arrives in Secunderabad

Hyderabad: growing need for medical oxygen in the second wave of the covid-19 pandemic, the Indian Railways is now delivering 63.6 tonnes of liquid oxygen to Telangana, with a train carrying liquid oxygen from Angul, Odisha to Secunderabad on Saturday morning.

It is a part of the Oxygen Express program of the Indian Railways to send medical oxygen to all the states that need it.

South Central Railway tweet that the rake has five liquid oxygen tankers carrying a total of 63.6 tonnes to the state.
Railways are using road tankers to facilitate easy transportation of essential medical oxygen.

According to the South Central Railway, these empty tankers first went from Secunderabad to Angul and are heading back to the city after being filled with liquid medical oxygen.

Earlier this week, the Indian Railways did a mapping of several routes to reach various states including Telangana and the route was mapped from Angul, Odisha to Secunderabad to be distributed to Telangana.

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