Covid-19: ITC helps in easing oxygen crisis, ties up with Linde India

In addition, ITC is airlifting a large number of oxygen concentrators for distribution, its paperboards unit in Bhadrachalam has commenced supply of oxygen to neighbouring areas

From oxygen cryogenic containers to oxygen concentrators and generators, ITC, is working towards mitigating the current crisis in oxygen supply in the second wave of Covid-19. 

To serve the national priority of easing the bottleneck of transporting medical oxygen, and to support the government’s efforts, ITC has tied up with Linde India to airfreight 24 cryogenic ISO containers of 20 tonnes each from Asian countries for use by them to transport medical oxygen across the country, said the company. 

The initiative comes in the wake of an acute shortage of medical oxygen across the country, constraining the healthcare system’s ability to provide