Bangladesh has received 180 tons of liquefied medical oxygen from India carried by 11 tankers, which were provided a green corridor on an emergency basis.
The development took place amid southern Bangladesh’s struggle to ensure oxygen supply for the hospitalized Covid-19 patients and the suspects, with the health authorities warning that the rising trend of Covid patients in the hospitals could lead to a crisis of medical oxygen.
The movement of 11 tankers to Bangladesh was facilitated on an emergency basis at Integrated Check Post (ICP) Petrapole, India on Wednesday.
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Given the criticality of these supplies of liquid oxygen to hospitals in Bangladesh, ICP Petrapole officials provided a green corridor for medical oxygen export.
The oxygen was imported by Linde, Spectra and Pure Oxygen, says a media release.
Anit Jain, Assistant Commissioner of Customs at ICP Petrapole informed that despite being Eid-ul-Azha holiday, a special team of Land Port officials, Customs officials, BSF and CNF agents was constituted to deal with the matter.
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They were in regular contact with the High Commission of India in Dhaka and their Benapole counterparts.
Kamlesh Saini, director of Petrapole Land Port, said the field-level officials had been given special instructions to ensure that essential commodities like Liquefied Medical Oxygen could be cleared quickly from the Petrapole port.
