Page 17 - Oxygen

Over 100 oxygen cylinders not refilled in 3 days: Ganga Ram hospital

Raising alarm, the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH) on Monday said that it failed to get over 100 oxygen cylinders refilled in three days

Covid-19: Delhi's Ganga Ram receives 4 tons of oxygen on Monday morning

Amid severe oxygen shortage due to a surge in Covid-19 cases, Delhi's Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH) received four tons of oxygen on Monday morning, hospital sources said

Covid-19: Oxygen Express train reaches UP's Lucknow from Jharkhand's Bokaro

In a big respite to cope up with the oxygen shortage in Uttar Pradesh, Indian Railway's 'Oxygen Express', carrying oxygen tankers, reached Lucknow from Jharkhand's Bokaro on Monday morning.Uttar Pradesh is currently witnessing a surge in cases. As per the union health ministry, currently, there are 2,97,616 active cases in the state.The Indian Railways is running 'Oxygen Express' trains and will continue to run them over the next few days to transport liquid medical oxygen and oxygen cylinders across the country. Roll-on-roll-off trucks are being transported on flat wagons by the trains for a quick supply of medical oxygen.The first Oxygen Express train, that left Visakhapatnam on Thursday, arrived in Maharashtra's Nagpur Friday evening with seven tankers carrying the life-saving medical gas.The central government has also restricted the use of liquid oxygen for non-medical purposes with immediate effect with the ministry of home affairs announcing that the use of liquid oxygen will ..

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2 Covid-19 patients die in Andhra Pradesh due to glitch in oxygen supply

Two Covid-19 patients who were on ventilators with high flow oxygen died due to technical issues in supplying the life saving gas during wee hours of Monday, official said

Covid-19 crisis: 5 tonnes of oxygen concentrators dispatched from US

Air India's A102 is transporting five tonnes (5000kg) of oxygen concentrators as cargo from the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York and is scheduled to land in Delhi by Monday noon

4 Covid patients die in Haryana hospital allegedly due to oxygen shortage

4 patients died in a private hospital in Rewari on Sunday allegedly due to a shortage of medical oxygen. District administration launched an investigation to ascertain the reason

Big groups plan O2 storage, transport; PM Cares Fund for 551 plants

The government is using "linear programming", an operation research tool, to get oxygen to cities from their nearest sources

82 die after oxygen cylinder explodes at Iraq coronavirus hospital

The death toll from a massive fire in a Baghdad hospital for coronavirus patients rose to 82 Sunday, as anxious relatives searched for those missing

US vows support to India for Covid fight, UK to send medical devices

A senior government official said India was urgently looking at augmenting oxygen supply

Start-ups, venture capitalists offer funds to tackle Oxygen scarcity

Amid oxygen shortage and a faltering health system in the country, India is seeing over 300,000 cases daily

Covid-19 crisis: US to release vaccine raw material immediately to India

The US will also urgently send oxygen generation and related supplies to India

Covid-19 second wave: Amazon to airlift over 10,000 oxygen concentrators

The e-commerce giant has joined hands with ACT Grants, Temasek Foundation and Pune Platform for Covid-19 Response to airlift over 8000 oxygen concentrators and 500 BiPAP machines from Singapore

Govt asks major ports to waive all charges for ships carrying oxygen

Port chairpersons have been asked to personally supervise logistic operations to ensure unhindered movement of such consignments

Indian Railways pitches in with Oxygen Express, ferries 150 MT to 2 states

Though just a blip compared with the nearly 6,600 MT medical oxygen produced per day, the Railways has been able to open a pathway from large infrastructure projects to cities

Covid-19: US agrees to send raw materials required by Indian vaccine makers

The United States is also pursuing options to provide India with oxygen generation and related supplies

Covid: RIL in talks to buy tankers for transport of liquid medical oxygen

India is struggling with a second wave of the pandemic with more than 300,000 new coronavirus cases being reported daily in the past few days

India Inc lends a hand to ease shortage and transportation of oxygen

On Friday, Dharmendra Pradhan tweeted that steel units across India had supplied over 143,000 tonnes of liquid medical oxygen till now with steel CPSEs pitching in with 39,000 tonnes

Covid-19 second wave: India Inc lends a hand amid shortage of oxygen

Over the weekend, many companies stepped in to ease the bottleneck in supply and transportation of oxygen, as demand ran high with the surge in cases

JSW Steel to ramp up supply of liquid medical oxygen to 900 tonnes daily

Hopes to achieve target by April end, is working to rait further