"Nothing is more important than saving every life": Mukesh Ambani

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) said on May 1 that it has become India's largest single-location producer of medical grade liquid oxygen amid the second wave of COVID-19 in the country.

RIL said it has ramped up production of medical grade oxygen from zero to 1,000 metric tonne per day and is ensuring swift supply of the resource across states and Union Territories.

"Traditionally, Reliance is not a manufacturer of medical grade liquid oxygen. Yet, starting from nil before the pandemic, Reliance Industries has now become India's largest producer of this life-saving resource from a single location," RIL said in a media statement.

"At its refinery-cum-petrochemical complex in Jamnagar and other facilities, RIL now produces over 1,000 MT of medical grade liquid oxygen per day — or over 11 percent of India's total production – meeting the needs of nearly every one in ten patients," the company added.

This oxygen is being provided free of cost to several states across India "to bring immediate relief to over 1 lakh patients" each day, RIL said.

Commenting on these initiatives, Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries Limited, said: "For me and for all of us at Reliance, nothing is more important than saving every life as India battles against a new wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. There is an immediate need to maximise India's production and transportation capacities for medical grade oxygen. I am proud of our engineers at Jamnagar who have worked tirelessly, with a great sense of patriotic urgency, to meet this new challenge."