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Lucknow: Family members of Covid patients wait for hours to get oxygen cylinders refilled
Long queues of people were seen on Tuesday waiting outside R K Oxygen plant in Lucknow to get a cylinder or a refill for their loved ones suffering from Covid-19.
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UPDATED: May 5, 2021 02:05 IST
Long queues of people were witnessed on Tuesday waiting outside R. K Oxygen plant in Lucknow, to get a cylinder or a refill for their loved ones suffering from Covid-19.
The oxygen shortage in Lucknow is leaving Covid positive patients gasping for breath. Private hospitals are struggling to provide patients with medical oxygen. Family members of Covid victims are having to wait for several hours to get their oxygen cylinders refilled.
Covid-19: Railways Special Express Carrying 3 Tankers Of Liquid Oxygen Reaches Lucknow
Another Oxygen Express’ train is expected to reach Nashik, later today. PTI Outlook Web Bureau 2021-04-24T09:26:06+05:30 Covid-19: Railways Special Express Carrying 3 Tankers Of Liquid Oxygen Reaches Lucknow outlookindia.com 2021-04-24T09:32:06+05:30
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Another ‘Oxygen Express’ is expected to reach Nashik, Maharashtra today.
Last week, the Railways decided to run ‘Oxygen Express’ trains in the backdrop of numerous states including Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi facing a massive shortage of medical oxygen for Covid-19 patients.
Empty tankers will be loaded with medical oxygen from Visakhapatnam, Jamshedpur, Rourkela and Bokaro, it had said.
India s COVID-19 active cases cross 25 lakh after another record surge amid oxygen crisis
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Twenty six patients died in two hospitals in Delhi and Amritsar which complained of oxygen shortage while officials at many other health facilities said they were struggling to meet the oxygen needs of the patients and appealed to the governments for help.
The first two trains carrying precious medical oxygen arrived in Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra, health facilities in state-run defence undertakings were opened to civilian COVID patients and IAF aircraft criss-crossed to carry empty oxygen tankers to filling sites as the pandemic situation turned grim in India with a new daily high of 3.46 lakh cases and 2,624 fatalities on Saturday.
The train arrived from Bokaro in Jharkhand. In view of the high demand for oxygen in the country following a record spike in coronavirus cases, the Railways has decided to run Oxygen Express trains to transport liquid medical oxygen and oxygen cylinders across the country. Tankers are being transported on flat wagons by the trains for quick supply of medical oxygen. Two tankers of medical oxygen arrived in Lucknow around 6.30 am while one was offloaded in Varanasi, Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Kumar Awasthi told PTI. Each tanker has a capacity of 15,000 litres, he said, adding that oxygen brought by two tankers may be used in Lucknow.