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Availability of #MedicalOxygen amid Covid-19 surge.

Tata Steel is supplying 200-300 tonnes of medical oxygen on a daily basis to various state governments and hospitals.

SAIL said it has also supplied over 33,300 tonne of LMO for the treatment of coronavirus-affected patients.

ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India (AMNS India) supplying 200 tonnes of medical oxygen per day to health facilities in Gujarat.

Jindal Steel (JSPL) also is supplying 50-100 tonne oxygen daily from its facilities at Angul (Odisha) and Raigarh (Chhattisgarh).

Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL), has supplied 8,842 tonnes of liquid oxygen to AP and other states.

Indian Oil Corporation (IndianOil), has begun the supply of 150 MT of medical oxygen at "no cost" to various hospitals in Delhi, Haryana and Punjab.

Bharat Petroleum (BPCL) diverting 100 MT oxygen per month in various hospital through its refineries.

Vedanta offers to supply 1,000 tonnes of oxygen per day from its locked Sterlite Copper plant.

Reliance Industries tweaked manufacturing 700 tonnes a day of medical-grade oxygen which is being supplied free of cost to states.

IFFCO to set up 4 oxygen plants at Kalol (Gujarat), Aonla and Phulpur (Uttar Pradesh) and at Paradeep (Odisha) in next 15 days.

PM-CARES in Jan'21 allocated Rs. 201.58 crores for installation of 162 dedicated PSA Medical Oxygen Generation Plants in public health facilities.

A liquid oxygen plant of 150 tonnes capacity per day has been set up in Lucknow’s SGPGI.

Uttar Pradesh setting up 10 oxygen plants for unabated supply of oxygen to all the hospitals in UP.

GoI approved for 100 new hospitals to have their own medical Oxygen plants via PM-Cares.

India have stock of 50,000 MT of Medical Oxygen & in addition GoI is importing 50,000 MT of Medical Oxygen.

Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra to provide funds in tune of 55 lakh for installation of 2 oxygen plants in Dashrath Medical College, Ayodhya.

ITC is airfreighting 24 cryogenic ISO containers from Asian countries in collaboration with Linde India Ltd, also ITC is airlifting large nos of oxygen concentrators.

1,02,400 oxygen cylinders were procured in April and May of 2020 and distributed to states to enable easier access of medical oxygen to end users.

Additional orders for 54,000 jumbo cylinders (D type) and 73,000 regular cylinders (B type), have been placed on 21/04/2021 and deliveries of the same will start by 30/04/2021.

Railways is being used for long distance transport of tankers through 'Roll on - Roll Off' (RORO) service.

India has 1,224 oxygen tankers (16,732 MT capacity). Efforts are being made to increase availability of oxygen tankers to more than 2,000. ~600 existing Nitrogen & Argon tankers to be modified, 138 via import & 50 to manufacture.

India is set to import 23 Oxygen Plants from Germany. Each plant has a capacity to produce 40 litres of oxygen per minute and 2,400 litres an hour

800 Oxygen Concentrators Airlifted from Hong Kong & 10,000 More to be Airlifted in a Week.

PM-CARES Fund has given in-principle approval for allocation of funds for installation of 551 dedicated Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) Medical Oxygen Generation Plants inside public health facilities.

Adani Group secures the 'cryogenic tanks' & 'medical-grade oxygen cylinders'. 4 ISO cryogenic tanks with 80 tons of liquid oxygen reached & 5,000 medical-grade oxygen cylinders coming soon.