GUWAHATI: Assam health department on Wednesday got 50,000 PPE kits directly flown in from Guangzhou in China. The state is the only state in the country to independently import PPE kits from China.A Blue Dart cargo plane landed at Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International airport here at 8.30 pm and delivered the consignment.Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said, “India, US and many other countries are importing PPE kits from China. Indian government is also bringing in PPE kits for all states but Assam is the only state to have independently imported the kits from China.”Sarma said that the state with the kits from china, the state’s buffer stock has now 1.5 lakh. “We want to create a buffer stock of 2 lakh PPE kits and cap it there. We have 1.5 lakh now,” he said.When the Covid-19 turned pandemic Assam health department had at its disposal just 10 PPE kits. “On Monday Mukesh Ambani donated 10,000 high quality PPE kits to Assam and we are grateful to him,” Sarma said.