Setting Up 44 Oxygen Plants, Importing 18 Cryogenic O2 Tankers: Kejriwal’s Action Plan To Deal Covid Crisis

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday announced that the Delhi government has made arrangements to procure oxygen tankers and plants from Thailand and France in coming days.

By : ABP News Bureau | Updated at : 27 Apr 2021 03:23 PM (IST)

Arvind Kejriwal

In a major respite to all the citizens of the national capital amid acute shortage of life-saving medical oxygen, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday asserted that the health situation has improved in past three days.

Addressing the media, the Chief minister further announced that the Delhi government has made arrangements to procure oxygen tankers and plants from Thailand and France in coming days.

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As per the announcement, the AAP govt will import 18 cryogenic tankers from Thailand and 21 ready-to-use oxygen plants from France. These will be installed at different hospitals and will help in resolving Oxygen crisis in those hospitals.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We are importing 21 ready-to-use Oxygen plants from France. They can be brought to use immediately. These will be installed at different hospitals and this will help us in resolving Oxygen crisis in those hospitals: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel='nofollow'>#COVID19</a> <a href="https://t.co/8lDWZfOuVe" rel='nofollow'>pic.twitter.com/8lDWZfOuVe</a></p>— ANI (@ANI) <a href="https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1386948202897711104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel='nofollow'>April 27, 2021</a></blockquote>
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"Delhi govt decides to import 18 tankers (Oxygen) from Bangkok, they'll start arriving from tomorrow. We've requested Centre to allow use of Air Force planes for this. Talks are on, I'm very hopeful that talks will be successful. This will resolve the issue of transport," Kejriwal noted.

In another major decision, Kejriwal announced that to set up 44 Oxygen Plants in Delhi within the next one month. "We're going to set up 44 Oxygen Plants in Delhi within the next one month - 8 of these are being installed by Centre. The remaining 36 are being installed by Delhi Govt, 21 plants coming from France & 15 plants from within the country itself," the Chief Minister said.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We're going to set up 44 Oxygen Plants in Delhi within the next one month - 8 of these are being installed by Centre. The remaining 36 are being installed by Delhi Govt, 21 plants coming from France & 15 plants from within the country itself: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel='nofollow'>#COVID19</a> <a href="https://t.co/BYbq63bJHi" rel='nofollow'>pic.twitter.com/BYbq63bJHi</a></p>— ANI (@ANI) <a href="https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1386953629110726657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel='nofollow'>April 27, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In the press briefing, he thanked all those who stepped forward to help the Delhi govt deal with the crippling Covid-19 crisis which recently led to acute shortage of beds, oxygen and isolation centres in the national capital.

He said, I had written to many industrialists of the country in last 4-5 days. I'd also written to CMs & sought help. We are receiving tremendous support, we have received offers from many people. Many of them are helping. I thank everyone who is helping Delhi Govt.