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Ranchi: The Indian Air Force, the Ranchi airport management and the Indian Railways are working like a giant conveyor belt to ensure unhindered oxygen supply to hundreds of Covid-19 hospitals across the country, which have critical patients gasping for breath.
The Ranchi’s Birsa Munda airport is receiving C17 Globemaster aircraft, Ilyushin 76, Antonov 32 and C130 J Super Hercules aircraft of the Indian Air Force every day.
These heavy-duty aircraft are relentlessly bringing in empty cryogenic tankers from various parts of the country, which are then heading to the oxygen manufacturing plants in Jamshedpur and Bokaro for filing. Once filled, the tankers are then being transported by freight trains of the Indian Railways to states like Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.
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Ranchi: In order to increase the strength of oxygen and ventilator-supported beds at Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (Rims), the state government procured 70 high-flow nasal oxygen (HFNO) cannula and equipment for 30 more ventilator beds. On Saturday, a consignment with all necessary items reached Ranchi’s Birsa Munda Airport from Delhi.
This comes in the backdrop of several instances of Covid-19 patients dying outside hospitals, including Rims and Ranchi sadar hospital, due to lack of availability of beds. Currently, the active caseload of the virus in the district stands at 9,400.
In order to ease out patients’ woes of hunting for Covid beds in the city, the district administration had also launched a dashboard to check availability of beds. However, the initiative failed to help out in the hour of crisis as the data was not realtime. It was also found that the dashboard showed availability of Covid beds at a particular private hospital, but when TOI tried to confirm