Chennai : The second consignment of 31.40 metric tonnes of Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) arrived at the Tiruvallur Railway station from Rourkela in Odisha on Saturday.
The LMO was brought by the Oxygen Express operated by the Indian Railways to met the growing demands for oxygen, Southern Railway sources said.
Earlier, an empty rake of the ‘Oxygen Express’ was dispatched from Tiruvallur to Rourkela on Tuesday night.
The first consignment of 80 MT of oxygen came from Durgapur in West Bengal at Tondiarpet Inland Container Depot yesterday morning.
Southern Railway said so far a total of 111.40 MT of oxygen has been delivered to the State in the last two days.
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