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From state to Centre to abroad: how India got Bhutan O2 supply

The Sunday Express spoke to officials in both countries to piece together the story that India is likely to get 40 metric tonnes of oxygen every day--equivalent to 10,000 Oxygen cylinder--from Bhutan next month.

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While India has historically come to Bhutan’s aid — from helping in the 5-year plans since the 1960s, or natural calamities such as 2007 floods or 2009 earthquake — as the second surge of Covid-19 pandemic overwhelmed India’s healthcare system and led to a shortage of medical oxygen, the tables have turned. The small Himalayan nation has come to the rescue of its mighty neighbour.

From a state health minister’s brainwave to South Block’s intervention, and from the Indian ambassador’s prompt approach to the Bhutanese King’s personal attention, this is a story of close-knit coordination between states, the Centre, embassy, and a foreign country.

The Sunday Express spoke to officials in both countries to piece together the story that India is likely to get 40 metric tonnes of oxygen every day — equivalent to 10,000 Oxygen cylinders — from Bhutan next month.

On April 25, Himanta Biswa Sarma, then Assam Health minister and the state’s new Chief Minister, was chatting with Pravin Jain, director of Guwahati-based Meghalaya Oxygen company, about their joint venture project in eastern Bhutanese district of Samdrup Jongkhar, only 7 km opposite Assam’s Baksa district. During the conversation, Jain mention that their plans to produce liquid oxygen in Bhutan had been put on hold due to pandemic-related restrictions in the neighbouring nation.

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