IAF airlifts med equipment to Ladakh

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Updated At : 11:39 AM Apr 25, 2021 IST

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Jammu, April 24

The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Saturday airlifted to Ladakh medical equipment weighing 1,700 kg, including bio-safety cabinets and centrifuges, which will help augment Covid-19 testing facilities in the Union Territory, officials said.

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (CSIR-IIIM) in Jammu provided the equipment. “The IAF’s Chinook and AN-32 helicopters airlifted a payload of 850 kg each, comprising a total of four bio-safety cabinets, two centrifuges and two stabilizers to Leh and Kargil. The items worth over Rs 1 crore were handed over by CSIR-IIIM-Jammu for Ladakh,” Jammu-based Defence PRO Lt Col Devender Anand said. — PTI

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