ECoR ensures supply of medicines to various locations amid lockdown

Bhubaneswar, Apr 18 () The East Coast Railway(ECoR) has taken steps to ensure the supply of importantmedicines to various locations within its jurisdiction, anofficial said on Saturday.

Several cartons of medicine have been transported todifferent railway stations amid the lockdown imposed in thewake of the coronavirus outbreak, he said.

Medicine packets were delivered at different railwaystations, including Vizianagaram, Vishakhapatnam, Sambalpurand Bhubaneswar.

While medicines are continuously being loaded andunloaded at different stations, a total of 41 cartons weretransported from Bhubaneswar in 00531 Cuttack-VishakhapatnamParcel Express to Vizianagaram on Friday, he said.

Similarly, 26 cartons of medicine were received atVishakhapatnam railway station on Friday by 00759 Howrah-Secunderabad Parcel Express, he said.

In Sambalpur division, altogether 70 cartons ofmedicine were received at Sambalpur railway station which wasbooked from Ahmedabad in 00932 Kankaria-Cuttack ParcelExpress.

Also one carton was booked in 00529 Sambalpur-Vishakhapatnam Parcel Express from Bargarh to Titagarh, anECoR statement said, adding that one carton was also bookedfrom Vishakhapatnam to Palasa railway station and 17 cartonswere sent from Yashvantpur to Bhubaneswar.

As many as 219 cartons containing medicine were sentfrom Kankeria to Cuttack and 266 cartons from Secunderabad toKhurda Road in different parcel express trains, it said.

Apart from carrying medicines, parcel trains being runby the ECoR are also transporting important medical equipmentto different places, besides essential items such as milkpowder, it said.

While the country is under lockdown due to thecoronavirus pandemic, the railways has been transporting foodgrains, petroleum products, coal, fruits, vegetables, milk,edible oil, sugar and salt and many other items to meet therequirements of the people, it said. SKNSOM SOM