Bhutan oxygen plant will be ready in 40 days, says Minister Pijush Hazarika

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BAKSA/TANGLA: The scarcity of oxygen during the COVID-19 pandemic is nationwide. Amidst the scarcity, Assam sees a flicker of hope for oxygen supply from the under-construction plant in Bhutan.

As instructed by Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, Minister of State for Health Pijush Hazarika and former Rajya Sabha MP Biswajit Daimary visited the ongoing oxygen plant at Samdrup Jhangkhar in Eastern Bhutan on Sunday.

The works of the oxygen plant were started in the Himalayan Kingdom last year, but the work had to be put on hold during the lockdown.

After visiting the plant site, Hazarika and Daimary said at Tamulpur that it would take around 40 more days for the completion of the oxygen plant. The plant would provide Assam 50 metric tonnes of oxygen per day when it is completed, and that would ease the scarcity of oxygen in India, they added.

The duo urged the people to obey COVID-appropriate behaviour, including wearing of face mask, maintaining social distancing, hand hygiene etc., to break the chain of the virus.

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