Tata Group importing 24 cryogenic containers through special chartered flights

The Tata Group is importing 24 cryogenic containers through special chartered flights to meet the current oxygen crisis caused by Covid 19 across the country. The move is to help supply liquid oxygen to medical centres across the country, officials said.

Multiple group companies such as Tata Steel has also diverted its industrial oxygen manufacturing capacity to meet the shortage.

Group officials said a taskforce is specially looking and collating medical requirements and requests coming in to arrange resources to meet the same. Quarantine centres and hospital beds are the two other main focus areas where resources are being arranged by the group.




Last year Tata Trusts and Tata Sons- donated Rs 1,500 crore towards coronavirus relief funds for providing protective equipment to medical personnel, respiratory systems for treating increasing cases, testing kits to ramp up testing in the country and setting up treatment facilities for those who have already caught the virus.

The group had also said that it will train health workers and the general public to empower them against coronavirus.