A special train carrying liquid medical oxygen made its first journey on Thursday from Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam to Maharashtra. Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal tweeted a video of the train preparing to leave the Rashtriya Ispat Nigam facility in Visakhapatnam.
The Ministry of Railways will run the “Oxygen Express” train from steel plants that produce oxygen to different parts of the country, reported NDTV. The decision to transport oxygen came when several states are facing an acute shortage of oxygen amid a massive surge in coronavirus infections.
“Railways transported essential commodities and kept the supply chain intact even during the lockdown last year and continue to serve the nation in times of emergencies,” the ministry said in a statement. “This time, the movement of ‘Oxygen Express’ towards different parts of the country will help patients and different hospitals.”
The first ‘Oxygen Express’ train loaded with liquid medical oxygen…