NEW DELHI, May 31 (NNN-PTI) – Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, yesterday, in his monthly radio programme, said, the production of liquid medical oxygen, a key component in the treatment of COVID-19 patients in the country, has gone up by 10 times.
“In the normal course, here, we were producing 900 metric tonnes of liquid medical oxygen in a day. Now the production has gone over 10 times to 9,500 metric tonnes a day,” said the Prime Minister.
As the country battles a second wave of COVID-19, many deaths took place, due to a shortage of oxygen, while hospitals sent SOS demanding oxygen.
People across the country used to seek help for oxygen cylinders, on social media.
To meet the growing demands, emergency medical aid and oxygen, besides oxygen concentrators and plants, arrived from foreign countries and regions.
The government started special oxygen express trains in response to states’ demand for urgent supply.– NNN-PTI
