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AHMEDABAD: Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) on Sunday said that supply of liquid oxygen to industries will be temporarily halted. The decision has been taken in collaboration with Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) to ensure adequate supply of oxygen to private hospitals. As part of the collaboration, the civic authorities have temporarily put a halt on supply of industrial oxygen.
“This will help us divert some 1,500 oxygen cylinders meant for industrial usage for medical usage. With this, vendors who supply oxygen cylinders to private hospitals will get 1,000 more cylinders,” according to a statement issued by the civic body.
The move will help fulfil oxygen needs for some 800 patients. Several private hospitals continue to reel under shortage of oxygen to meet growing requirements from patients. In a bid to ensure adequate oxygen supply a central control room has been set up at the Sabarmati Riverfront Development Corporation Limited (SRFDCL)
Queue for remdesivir at Zydus hospital in Ahmedabad on Monday
AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat high court on Monday pulled up the state government for the shortage of the antiviral drug remdesivir and the control on its supply, and ordered it to make the medication available for all, like paracetamol, during this surge in Covid-19 cases.
The judges asserted that they want results instead of getting into the unnecessary blame game over the behaviour of people, production and medicine stocks.
While taking up the issue of Covid-19 in a suo motu PIL, the bench of Chief Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Bhargav Karia said that the government should come up with policy on what is needed and when it is needed and to cut hoarders out. “The state can always find those hoarding and people selling medicines at higher prices and see that the strongest possible measures are taken against them,” the court said, to which the government said that this has been done.
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AHMEDABAD: Gujarat reeled under relentless third surge of coronavirus as the state breached the 3,000 Covid-19 cases in a day for the first time on Monday. Total 3,160 cases were reported which calculated to roughly two Covid-19 cases detected every minute in the state. Fifteen people succumbed to the infection.
In such a scenario, authorities of the Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad, the biggest Covid-designated hospital in the state, revealed that a total of 899 patients were hospitalized with corona complications in the past nine days. Of these, 95% of patients eligible for the Covid-19 protective jab had not got vaccinated.
AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat high court on Tuesday suggested the state government to take “urgent and serious steps” to curb the situation and impose lockdown for 3-4 days to curb the rising Covid cases.
The bench of Chief Justice Vikram Nath and Justice B D Karia summoned the top law officers of the government – advocate general Kamal Trivedi and government pleader Manisha Shah - and told them to convey the court’s concerns to the decision makers to take immediate steps.
After a brief discussion, the chief justice told the law officers, “You may please convey our concerns to the decision makers that urgent and serious steps need to be taken to check this (Covid-19 spread) otherwise things will go out of hand.”