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BENGALURU: Close to 524 deaths have taken place between April and May 16 either due to lack of oxygen, shortage or denial in India during its second wave of Covid-19, a community of open data professionals have estimated.
The open data tracker made by Data Meet was created with an aim to archive lost lives due to the lack of oxygen and counter the ongoing denial and erasure of these deaths in official and government narratives.
The publicly available tracker estimated that the highest number of oxygen related deaths (83 deaths) took place across five medical colleges in Goa. Karnataka reposted 54 such deaths till May 16, including 36 persons at Chamarajanagar Institute of Medical Sciences, 4 patients at KBN Hospital at Kalaburagi, 2 patients at Arka Hospital in Bengaluru, 5 at Shri Bhanji D Khimji Lifeline Hospital in Hubballi, 4 at Kalaburagi government hospital and 3 at Belagavi government hospital.
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6 patients die in Bengaluru, Kalaburagi as oxygen crisis deepens in Karnataka
6 patients die in Bengaluru, Kalaburagi as oxygen crisis deepens in Karnataka
At least four patients died of oxygen shortage at the Afzalpur taluk hospital in Kalaburagi district late Monday night. Two others died at a hospital in Bengaluru due to shortage of medical oxygen.
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A health worker checks a Covid patient on oxygen support at a hospital, during the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic in Bengaluru, Friday. (PTI Photo)
The oxygen crisis deepened in parts of Karnataka, including Bengaluru, with hospitals raising concerns over the gap in oxygen supply.
Several hospitals in Bengaluru have been sending out appeals for oxygen, some of them even asking patients, who have already been admitted, to find a bed elsewhere as they are running out of the life-giving gas.