Some hospital authorities are continuing to speak out about the oxygen shortage in Uttar Pradesh despite chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s attempt to gag them with a crackdown, which has led to a notice to a Meerut hospital threatening to cancel its licence.
Vinay Sharma, superintendent of Tender Palm Hospital in Lucknow’s Gomti Nagar neighbourhood, told reporters he was queuing at the gate of an oxygen refilling centre because his patients urgently needed supplies.
Adityanath, who denies any oxygen shortage in the state, has been steadfastly claiming that his government supplies enough oxygen to every hospital, and has ordered a crackdown on those “spreading panic”.
View of an oxygen refilling centre, in Prayagraj, Wednesday, April 28, 2021. | Photo Credit:
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While three patients died at Anand Hospital, four died at the KMC Hospital in the city, reported NDTV Seven patients died in two hospitals in Meerut district, allegedly due to scarcity of oxygen supply, doctors said at a time when the Uttar Pradesh government has asserted that there was no shortage of medical oxygen or medicines at any hospital.
While three patients died at Anand Hospital, four died at the KMC Hospital in the city, reported NDTV, the TV channel.
Anand Hospital’s Medical Superintendent Subash Yadav told the channel on Tuesday that the hospital had been facing acute shortage of oxygen for two days.
Chief minister Yogi Adityanath has sent out a clear message to the state’s hospitals: keep your mouth shut about any oxygen crisis or face action.
At an online meeting on Sunday evening, Adityanath asked senior administrative and police officers, including divisional commissioners and inspectors-general, to crack down on hospitals that discharge patients citing an oxygen shortage or complain to the media about the crisis, a senior health department official said.
“The chief minister said that action must be initiated against hospitals that put up notices saying they had no oxygen and the patients should be shifted elsewhere. He said there should be a probe to establish whether they deliberately tried to create panic,” the official said.
Seven Covid Patients In Meerut Dead, Hospitals Say No Oxygen Seven Covid Patients In Meerut Dead, Hospitals Say No Oxygen Three Covid patients died at a private hospital Anand hospital in Meerut. Another four died at the KMC hospital. The doctors have attributed the deaths to oxygen shortage.
Updated: April 27, 2021 10:33 pm IST
At least seven Covid patients have died in two hospitals of Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, the doctors have attributed the deaths to a severe shortage of oxygen. Three Covid patients died at a private hospital Anand hospital – in Meerut. Another four died at the KMC hospital.
As Covid cases spike in the country s most populous state, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has repeatedly asserted that there is no oxygen shortage in the state.