The Union Government has decided to increase the quota of Oxygen, Remdesivir injections, supply of vaccines to Telangana State.

Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal informed this over phone to Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Saturday.

The Union Minister told the CM that the supply of Remdesivir injections would be increased from 5,500 to 10, 500 from Monday onwards. The Centre also decided to supply an additional 200 Tonnes of Oxygen following the demand for more supply from the state government, the Union Minister said.

The Union Minister also informed the CM that the required Oxygen for Telangana state would be supplied from Bhilai in Chhattisgarh, Angul from Odisha and from Durgapur in West Bengal States.

Goyal has requested the CM to coordinate the supplies. The Union Minister also responded positively on the demand made by the CM to increase the vaccinations quota. He asked the CM to give priority to the second dose of the vaccines. CM KCR told the Union minister that in Telangana State priority is given to the second dose.

The Union Minister explained to the CM that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had instructed him to supply the required Oxygen, Remdesivir, Vaccines to the state to curtail the Corona spread and against the backdrop of the State High Court’s verdict that the state government should offer treatment of Corona to all the patients which had increased burden on the state.