After a tanker went off the radar, the Andhra Pradesh found its driver taking a break in Dharmavaram. To ensure that the crucial supply of oxygen reaches Vijayawada hospital on time, Andhra Pradesh created a green corridor for the tanker.
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The Andhra Pradesh Police created a green corridor for an oxygen tanker to travel from Dharmavaram to Vijayawada in the wee hours of Friday.
Police officials said they were informed on Thursday night that a tanker was sent to Odisha’s Angul to carry oxygen for treatment of over 400 patients admitted to Government General Hospital in Vijayawada. The truck, however, had gone off the radar on its way back to Vijayawada and couldn’t be tracked on the GPS system.
Panicked authorities alerted top police in Vijayawada who further alerted the field deployment and en route district SPs. After a few hours of a massive inter-district manhunt, the driver of the truck carrying the life-saving gas was found resting at a dhaba in Dharmavaram in East Godavari district.
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On being questioned, the driver told the police that he was exhausted after driving in hot, humid conditions and so stopped for a nap.
Sensing the urgency of the situation, the Andhra police decided to give a green corridor to the oxygen truck till the Vijayawada hospital. The police also sent a cop, a home guard with the driver to the destination in Vijayawada.
Officials told India Today that the tanker on Friday morning reached the hospital where the supplies were drying fast.
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