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Navy chief briefs PM Modi about aid efforts, oxygen operation

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THE NAVY is opening its hospitals in varied cities to civilians, sending its docs to help different medical amenities and in addition joined the efforts to deliver oxygen containers from different nations to combat the second wave of Covid, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was knowledgeable on Monday.
Modi met Navy chief Admiral Karambir Singh on Monday to assessment all of the Covid-related initiatives taken by the Navy. The Prime Minister’s Office stated in an announcement that Singh briefed Modi “about various initiatives being taken by the Indian Navy to assist the countrymen in the pandemic” and talked about that it has “reached out to all state administrations and have offered help in terms of hospital beds, transportation and other such things”.
Singh knowledgeable the PM that naval hospitals are “being opened for use of civilians in various cities”. He advised Modi that “medical personnel in the Navy have been redeployed at various locations in the country to manage Covid duties” and Navy personnel are “being provided Battle Field Nursing Assistant Training to be deployed in Covid duties”.
Seven of its ships are concerned in Samudra Setu 2 operation to move oxygen containers.