Noida/Ghaziabad: The district administration of Gautam Budh Nagar has stopped all private hospitals that have run out of oxygen or have inadequate stock from admitting Covid patients. Most facilities have been grappling with dwindling oxygen stock for the past few days.
“The only difference between a bed at home and a bed at a hospital is that the hospital should be able to provide oxygen. When there is no oxygen, why should a hospital admit a patient? That is not treatment. So, we have stopped all private hospitals that have run out of oxygen from admitting patients. We are continuously expanding ICU facilities and have currently got 2,500 ICU beds. We can treat 3,000 Covid patients now,” district magistrate Suhas LY told TOI.
We are supposed to give life. If we cannot give even oxygen, our patients will die, said Sunil Kumar Saggar, CEO of Shanti Mukand Hospital in Karkardooma, in a choked voice around 2.43pm on Thursday with his hospital left with just two hours of oxygen. He was anxious about the 110 Covid patients in their care.
The crisis had started brewing at this 200-bed hospital around 3am. Out of the 110 Covid patients, 12 were on ventilator with one consuming 18 litres of oxygen per minute. Saggar, along with a couple of doctors, reviewed the situation and hoped to survive for some more hours, relying on the 1.7 metric tonnes of oxygen received from their vendor a day earlier. By 5am, more doctors had arrived. However, as the day progressed, the hospital realised it would soon run out of oxygen.
We are supposed to give life. If we cannot give even oxygen, our patients will die, said Sunil Kumar Saggar, CEO of Shanti Mukand Hospital in Karkardooma, in a choked voice around 2.43pm on Thursday with his hospital left with just two hours of oxygen. He was anxious about the 110 Covid patients in their care.
The crisis had started brewing at this 200-bed hospital around 3am. Out of the 110 Covid patients, 12 were on ventilator with one consuming 18 litres of oxygen per minute. Saggar, along with a couple of doctors, reviewed the situation and hoped to survive for some more hours, relying on the 1.7 metric tonnes of oxygen received from their vendor a day earlier. By 5am, more doctors had arrived. However, as the day progressed, the hospital realised it would soon run out of oxygen.
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