COVID-19 surge: First tanker with 4.80 tonne oxygen leaves Sterlite Copper’s Thoothukudi plant
The Hindu
Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital will be the first beneficiary
The first tanker with 4.80 tonnes of medical-grade oxygen from was dispatched at 7.10 a.m. on Thursday. “The medical-grade oxygen with 98.60% purity from Sterlite Copper’s oxygen plant was sent to Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital,” said K. Senthil Raj, District Collector and chairperson of the State government-appointedfor overseeing oxygen production from this plant. After producing 5 KL liquid oxygen for the first two or three days, generation of 35 tonnes of medical-grade liquid oxygen in this plant is expected to commence from May 15-16, which will be great solace for the District Collectors of the southern districts, who are desperately waiting for the gas to save a few thousand critically ill COVID-19 patients under treatment in the medical college and the government hospitals.
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