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Owing to the overwhelming requisite for oxygen gas, worsened by the erratic supply- hospitals are closing doors to patients in India; Bhutan will supply 40 metric tonnes of liquid oxygen daily to India to tide the short supply.
Amid a crippling shortage of life-saving gas across all the major Indian states, countries across the world are sending medical consignments to help India fight the worsening COVID situation. Together with the world to bail India out of the worst hit situation, Bhutan will supply forty metric tonnes of liquid oxygen daily to the neighbouring Indian state, Assam.
So far, Assam registered 243802 COVID-19 positive cases; there are 19923 active cases, while there are 221299 recovered cases and 1233 deceased cases.
In a Press Release of the Indian Embassy in Thimphu, it states that ‘in the context of the present COVID situation, Bhutan will supply liquid oxygen to India from a new plant being set up at the Motanga Industrial Estate, Samdrup Jongkhar district by M/s S.D. Cryogenics Gases Pvt. Ltd., a Bhutanese company’.
‘Every day, forty metric tonnes of liquid oxygen produced by the Oxygen Plant will be exported to Assam using cryogenic tankers. The oxygen plant has a domestic investment of 51% by M/s SD Cryogenics and FDI component of 49% by Meghalaya Oxygen Pvt. Ltd., an Assam-based Indian company,’ states the Press Release.
With no beds available in the hospitals, many are resorting to nurse in their own homes, and this too is proving a daunting task as there has been no constant supply of oxygen, there is rather an uncertain hope to get the oxygen supply.
Some that have resorted to their own homes to treat the COVID-19 illness are not in a position to get a regular supply of oxygen cylinders, so people are buying it from the black market.
Patients are paying a hefty amount, 50,000 rupees to procure a cylinder that normally costs 6,000 rupees. Amongst the patients, there is a growing tension to fund the next cycle of oxygen supply from the black market, the expenditure has gone over-the-roof.
International the community has been sending medical aid to the COVID-stricken India; the surge is registering consecutive records of COVID-19 cases. One of the worst-hit cities is Delhi; there are no ICU beds left.
The situation is particularly dire in Delhi where there are no ICU beds left. Families of those who can afford it are hiring nurses and consulting doctors remotely to keep their loved ones breathing.
Meanwhile, 160 consignment of oxygen cylinders were sent from Gelephu to the Indian State of Assam on the morning of April 29 as pledged earlier to aid India fight against the deadly virus. In a few days’ time, additional oxygen cylinders will be supplied from other Dzongkhags to Assam.
The provision of oxygen by Bhutan will augment India's efforts to win the fight against COVID-19 and save precious lives. The timely aid, the press release states, it is a practical manifestation of the uniquely close and friendly ties between India and Bhutan.
Bhutan is not only the first country in the region to get the AstraZeneca vaccines from India under the Vaccine Maitri Drive, Bhutan also received the highest consignment of the vaccine in the region.
Owing to the overwhelming requisite for oxygen gas, worsened by the erratic supply- hospitals are closing doors to patients in India; Bhutan will supply 40 metric tonnes of liquid oxygen daily to India to tide the short supply.
Amid a crippling shortage of life-saving gas across all the major Indian states, countries across the world are sending medical consignments to help India fight the worsening COVID situation. Together with the world to bail India out of the worst hit situation, Bhutan will supply forty metric tonnes of liquid oxygen daily to the neighbouring Indian state, Assam.
So far, Assam registered 243802 COVID-19 positive cases; there are 19923 active cases, while there are 221299 recovered cases and 1233 deceased cases.
In a Press Release of the Indian Embassy in Thimphu, it states that ‘in the context of the present COVID situation, Bhutan will supply liquid oxygen to India from a new plant being set up at the Motanga Industrial Estate, Samdrup Jongkhar district by M/s S.D. Cryogenics Gases Pvt. Ltd., a Bhutanese company’.
‘Every day, forty metric tonnes of liquid oxygen produced by the Oxygen Plant will be exported to Assam using cryogenic tankers. The oxygen plant has a domestic investment of 51% by M/s SD Cryogenics and FDI component of 49% by Meghalaya Oxygen Pvt. Ltd., an Assam-based Indian company,’ states the Press Release.
With no beds available in the hospitals, many are resorting to nurse in their own homes, and this too is proving a daunting task as there has been no constant supply of oxygen, there is rather an uncertain hope to get the oxygen supply.
Some that have resorted to their own homes to treat the COVID-19 illness are not in a position to get a regular supply of oxygen cylinders, so people are buying it from the black market.
Patients are paying a hefty amount, 50,000 rupees to procure a cylinder that normally costs 6,000 rupees. Amongst the patients, there is a growing tension to fund the next cycle of oxygen supply from the black market, the expenditure has gone over-the-roof.
International the community has been sending medical aid to the COVID-stricken India; the surge is registering consecutive records of COVID-19 cases. One of the worst-hit cities is Delhi; there are no ICU beds left.
The situation is particularly dire in Delhi where there are no ICU beds left. Families of those who can afford it are hiring nurses and consulting doctors remotely to keep their loved ones breathing.
Meanwhile, 160 consignment of oxygen cylinders were sent from Gelephu to the Indian State of Assam on the morning of April 29 as pledged earlier to aid India fight against the deadly virus. In a few days’ time, additional oxygen cylinders will be supplied from other Dzongkhags to Assam.
The provision of oxygen by Bhutan will augment India's efforts to win the fight against COVID-19 and save precious lives. The timely aid, the press release states, it is a practical manifestation of the uniquely close and friendly ties between India and Bhutan.
Bhutan is not only the first country in the region to get the AstraZeneca vaccines from India under the Vaccine Maitri Drive, Bhutan also received the highest consignment of the vaccine in the region.
