Airlines, travel portals put logistics expertise to work to ease oxygen crisis

Airlines, travel websites and transporters are deploying their resources to move oxygen across the country as hospitals struggled to treat covid-19 patients because of an acute shortage.

Singapore-based Temasek has partnered with Air India Ltd and Amazon to airlift oxygen concentrators, non-invasive BiPAP ventilator machines and other essential medical supplies to local communities in urgent need.

Temasek Foundation has also partnered with companies such as ACT Grants, Bajaj Group, Abhay Firodia Group, Star Agriwarehousing and Collateral Management Ltd, Thermax Ltd and Pune Platform for Covid-19 Response to supply essentials to various hospitals and treatment centres across the country.