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  • Navy steps up Covid relief measures, nine warships transporting oxygen, medical equipment from abroad

    By Express News Service
    NEW DELHI: The Indian Navy has stepped up its Covid relief Operation Samudra Setu II with ships from all three Naval Commands in Mumbai, Visakhapatnam and Kochi deployed to ship Liquid Medical Oxygen and associated medical equipment from friendly foreign countries in the Persian Gulf and South-East Asia.

    Indian Navy has three Commands – Western, Eastern and Southern. The simultaneous warship movements continue on the Western and Eastern seaboards.

    On the Western seaboard, while Indian Naval Ship (INS) Talwar was entering the port of New Mangalore in Karnataka on Wednesday May 5, during the same time INS Kolkata, deployed in Persian Gulf, was departing Kuwait. 

    INS Talwar ferried two 27-ton liquid oxygen tanks from Bahrain, and INS Kolkata is carrying two 27-ton oxygen tanks, 400 oxygen cylinders and 47 concentrators.

    In addition, four warships are also en route to Qatar and Kuwait to bring back around nine 27-ton oxygen tanks and more than 1500 oxygen cylinders from these countries. On the Eastern Seaboard, Indian Naval Ship Airavat, departed from Singapore on Wednesday with more than 3600 oxygen cylinders, eight 27-ton (216 tons) oxygen tanks, 10000 Rapid Antigen Detection Test Kits and seven concentrators while INS Jalashwa remains deployed in the region, standing by to embark on its mission at short notice.

    (Photo | Indian Navy)

     INS Shardul, the Landing Ship Tank of the Southern Naval Command at Kochi, is also on its way to the Persian Gulf to bring three liquid oxygen-filled cryogenic containers. It may be recalled that INS Jalashwa and INS Shardul had also participated in Operation Samudra Setu last year to repatriate stranded Indian citizens from abroad. The deployment of nine warships as part of the ‘Operation Samudra Setu II’ forms a part of the multiple lines of effort by the Government and the Indian Navy to supplement the oxygen requirement in the country.

  • COVID: Indian Navy launches Samudra Setu-II for shipment of oxygen-filled containers to India

    Express News Service
    NEW DELHI: Indian Navy has launched Operation Samudra Setu-II on Friday to augment the ongoing national mission for meeting the Oxygen requirements (#OxygenExpress). 

    The Indian Naval warships deployed under the mission will undertake shipment of liquid oxygen-filled cryogenic containers and associated medical equipment in support of the nation’s fight against COVID-19. 

    Giving Details, Indian Navy Spokesperson said, “Two ships INS Kolkata and INS Talwar have entered the port of Manama, Bahrain for embarking and transporting 40MT of liquid oxygen to Mumbai.” 

    INS Jalashwa is enroute to Bangkok and INS Airavat to Singapore for similar missions, added the spokesperson.

    Last year Indian Navy had launched Operation Samudra Setu as part of the Vande Bharat Mission and repatriated approx 4000 (3992) stranded and distressed Indian citizens from Maldives, Sri Lanka, and Iran. 

    Within the country, the Indian Navy deployed its Medical Contingent from its three Commands to Ahmedabad to bolster the availability of trained manpower in the 900 bedded Dhanvantari Covid Hospital giving care to the civil population. 

    The hospital put up by the Gujarat govt required an urgent infusion of trained medical personnel and this contingent will enable admission of more patients in the days to come. 

    “A 76 member Naval Medical Contingent comprising of 10 Medical Officers including a Surgeon and an Anesthetist, 12 Nursing Officers, 34 Paramedics and 20 Battle Field Nursing Assistants (BFNA) was air lifted from 5 Naval hospitals around the country.” Navy Informed.