IAF and Indian Navy working on war footing in fight against COVID-19
Source: The Sangai Express / PIB
Imphal, May 10 2021:
Indian Air Force (IAF) and Indian Navy (IN) are working tirelessly to provide logistic support to shore up medical supplies to tackle the current COVID-19 SITUATION.
As on early hours of 10 May 2021, the IAF aircraft carried but 534 sorties from various parts of the country, airlifting 336 oxygen containers of total capacity of6,420 Metric Tonnes (MT) and other medical supplies and equipment.
The cities covered are Jamnagar, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Panagarh, Indore, Ranchi, Agra, Jodhpur, Begumpet, Bhubaneshwar, Pune, Surat, Raipur,- Udaipur, Mumbai, Lucknow, Nagpur, Gwalior, Vijayawada, Baroda, Dimapur and Hindan.
The IAF aircraft also carried out 84 international sorties, airlifting 81 cryogenic oxygen storage containers of total capacity of 1,407 MT along with 1,252 empty oxygen cylinders, 705 oxygen Concentrators and Zeolite (respiratory oxygen raw material).
The equipment has been procured from Singapore, Dubai, Thailand, United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Australia, Indonesia and Israel.
As part of operation 'Samudra Setu IF, Indian Naval Ships INS Airavat, INS Trikand and INS Kolkata arrived back home with critical COVID-19 medical stores from friendly foreign countries on 10 May 2021 .
INS Talwar had arrived on 05 May 2021.INS Airavat arrived at Visakhapatnam on May 10 from Singapore with 8 Cryogenic oxygen tanks, 3,898 Oxygen cylinders and other critical COVID-19 medical stores; INS Trikand arrived at Mumbai on May 10 from Doha with 40 MT Liquid Oxygen (Liquid Medical Oxygen cryogenic containers); INS Kolkata arrived at New Mangalore Port on May 1- from Doha, Qatar and Kuwait along with 400 Oxygen Cylinders, 27 MT Liquid Medical Oxygen Containers (2 nos) and 47 Oxygen Concentrators while INS Talwar arrived at New Mangalore Port on may 5 from Bahrain carrying 27 MT Oxygen Containers (2 nos) .
INS Kochi, INS Tabarm INS Jalashwa and INS Shardulare are expected to reach India soon with critical COVID-19 medical stores, including Oxygen tankers and cylinders from friendly foreign countries.