Supply 200 metric ton more oxygen to Maharashtra

 

Make available 10 ISO tankers for transportation of liquid oxygen
 
Chief Secretary tables demands before Union Cabinet Secretary

 

New Delhi , May 4:- Maharashtra is facing the second wave of Corona virus and the number of infected patients in 16 districts is on the rise. Due to this situation, more oxygen is necessary for the treatment and as such demand of oxygen in the state is increasing. On the backdrop of the necessity of more oxygen the union government should supply 200 metric ton O2 in addition to that being supplied to Maharashtra today. Similarly, 10 more tankers should be made available for transportation of the liquid oxygen. These demands were made by the chief secretary of the state Sitaram Kunte to the Union Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba through a letter.

Chief Minister Mr Uddav Thackeray is consistently taking the review of the

oxygen,  Remdsivir and the beds available in the state as the number of patients is on the rise. Mr Thakeray asked the chief secretary to table the demands with the union government. According to his direction, the chief secretary Mr Kunte wrote a letter to the Cabinet Secretary.

 

       Presently, in Maharashtra there are six lakh 63 thousand 758 active patients. Out of these, 78 thousand 884 patients are on Oxygen whereas 24 thousand 787 infected patients are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU’s).
The number of patients in 16 districts of the state including Palghar, Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg, Satara, Sangli, Kolhapur, Solapur, Nandurbar, Parbhani, Hingoli, Amravati, Buldhana, Wardha, Gadchiroli and Chandrapur is continuously soaring and hence demand for oxygen has increased. The chief secretary also mentioned in the letter that oxygen audit is had been started in every district of the state.

       Considering the increasing demand of oxygen in the state, the union government should supply 200 metric ton of additional oxygen besides the present supply. He also said that the lifting facility of oxygen should be convenient for the state. The earlier decision for oxygen availability from of RINL of Odisha, Vizag and Jindal Steel is yet on the papers.
Presently 125 metric ton oxygen is supplied from the Jamnagar city of Gujarat and additional hundred metric ton oxygen, per day, which makes a total of 225 metric ton, should be supplied. He also requested that 230 metric ton oxygen should be supplied from Bhilai.

        In his letter the chief secretary further said that both these destinations are geographically close to Maharashtra and one hand the transportation will be more convenient and on the other hand, patients can be provided oxygen on time to save their lives.

      The union government has received ISO tankers from Singapore, Dubai and oil producing companies of other nations for supplying liquid oxygen. At least 10 tankers out of these should be made available for Maharashtra so that it will be convenient for Maharashtra to transport liquid oxygen from Angul in Orissa through the RoRo service, the chief secretary added.