Bengaluru: To mitigate severe shortage of medical oxygen in Hospitals and Covid Care Centres, Chief Secretary P. Ravikumar has written to the Railway Board to run oxygen express trains to Karnataka on priority.
In a letter to Railway Board Chairman Suneeth Sharma, the Chief Secretary has requested Railways to operate oxygen special trains that would carry tanker trucks between Whitefield or Doddaballapura Railway Stations in Bengaluru and Kalinganagar or Angul Stations in Odisha as well as Vishakapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. It needs to be operated twice a week.
