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Indian Railways is ensuring seamless transportation of medical items on priority during the nationwide lock down due to COVID-19. Indian Railways continues to deliver medicines, masks, hospital items and other medical commodities through its timetabled parcel services to strengthen Government’s efforts in managing the challenges and adverse impact of corona virus in the country. 

As o­n 18.04.2020, Indian Railways has transported 1150 Tonnes medical items in various parts of the country. N.F. Railway has also transported nearly 2.50 tonnes of medical items to various N.E. States within its jurisdiction through parcel express trains.

The transportation of such items to all NE states is of great importance as these items are generally not manufactured in this region and states are heavily dependent o­n transportation of these items from outside. Mask, sanitizer and other medical items have become very essentials in view of the present spread of the COVID-19.

NFR also operated small size Parcel Express trains as per fixed Time Table timings towards Agartala (Tripura), Dibrugarh (Assam), Dimapur (Nagaland) and Mendipathar (Meghalaya) etc to ensure transportation of essential goods in small quantity including medical items.

It may be mentioned here that, Indian Railways is touching human lives during the hour of crisis. Recently, for an autistic child, skimmed camel milk was transported by a Parcel Train from Ajmer to Mumbai when the parents resorted for help o­n social media platform. Similarly, another autistic child in Ajmer suffering from serious ailments, had his stock of medicines run out, his relatives approached Railway officials and medicines were transported by a parcel train from Ahmadabad to Ajmer.

Indian Railways ensures seamless transportation of medical items on priorityduring the nationwide lock down

Timetabled Parcel trains operated by Zonal Railways provides boost to transportation of essential medicines and other medical equipments during the lockdown

New Delhi, 19th April 2020

Indian Railways is ensuring seamless transportation of medical items on priorityduring the nationwide lock down due to COVID-19. Indian Railways continues to deliver medicines, masks, hospital items and other medical commodities through its timetabled parcel services to strengthen Government’s efforts in managing the challenges and adverse impact of corona virus in the country. 

As o­n 18.04.2020, Indian Railways has transported 1150 Tonnes medical items in various parts of the country. The zone wise details of transportation of medical goods are as under:

S. No.	Zone	Weight (Tonnes)
1	Southern Railway	83.13
2	South East Central Railway	15.10
3	East Central Railway	1.28
4	North Eastern Railway	2.88
5	East Coast Railway	1.06
6	South Central Railway	47.22
7	Central Railway	135.64
8	North Central Railway	74.32
9	West Central Railway	27.17
10	South Eastern Railway	2.82
11	South Western Railway	12.10
12	Eastern Railway	8.52
13	North East Frontier Railway	2.16
14	North Western Railway	8.22
15	Western Railway	328.84
16	Northern Railway	399.71
Total		1150.17 T

Indian Railways is touching human lives during the hour of crisis. Recently, for an autistic child, skimmed camel milk was transported by a Parcel Train from Ajmer to Mumbai when the parents resorted for help o­n social media platform. Similarly, another autistic child in Ajmer suffering from serious ailments, had his stock of medicines run out, his relatives approached Railway officials and medicines were transported by a parcel train from Ahmedabad to Ajmer.