Oxygen cylinders being refilled at private gas company for patients
MUMBAI: Shortage of oxygen hit the city’s public health system hard as 168 Covid-19 patients—including 40 critical ones—from six municipal hospitals were shifted in an overnight operation to bigger facilities between Friday evening and Saturday morning.
The six include Bhabha hospitals (Bandra and Kurla), Bhagwati Hospital (Borivli), Shatabdi Hospital (Govandi), M T Agarwal Hospital (Mulund) and Trauma Hospital (Jogeshwari). Messages were sent on various NGO helplines to get cardiac ambulances to move the patients; finally, each ambulance had to make multiple trips.
“In six to eight hours, we completed the transfers,” said BMC additional municipal commissioner Suresh Kakani. The supply in the city was disrupted for a few days due to a mishap in one of the plants.