The Indian Navy’s Offshore Patrol Vessel INS Savitri departed Visakhapatnam on August 30 and is en route to Chittagong, Bangladesh to support the ongoing efforts of the Bangladesh military and government agencies in combating the ongoing wave of the Covid pandemic.
The ship will arrive on September 2 carrying two 960 LPM Medical Oxygen Plants (MOP), one each for the Bangladesh Navy and Dhaka Medical College.
INS Savitri is an indigenously built Offshore Patrol Vessel of the Indian Navy under the Eastern Naval Command based at Visakhapatnam.
As part of the Government of India’s vision of SAGAR (Security and Growth for All in the Region), the Indian Navy has been proactively engaging with countries in the region and has been at the forefront of numerous humanitarian missions spanning the entire extent of the Indian Ocean, including South/South East Asia and East Africa.
Earlier, the Indian Naval Ship Shakti had transported 100 tonnes of Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) to Colombo, Sri Lanka, whilst INS Airavat is currently on a deployment to South East Asia for trans-shipment of medical aid to Indonesia, Vietnam, and Thailand.