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Dutta is an Indian Information Services officer who retired in 2014 as director-general, news, of Doordarshan
Theirs is one of the many tragedies unfolding in India s national capital where the infrastructure is unable to cope with the daily number of cases and fatalities
New Delhi: Former Doordarshan Director General Archana Dutta lost her mother and husband to COVID-19 in the span of an hour after a desperate scramble to get them admitted to the hospital in time to stem their falling oxygen levels failed. Both were declared Covid positive after their death in a Malviya Nagar government hospital on April 27, Dutta said on Tuesday while recounting her trauma in a Twitter post.
Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, "We need urgent help to transport oxygen. We have sought help from different sources including the Army, Central government and its different wings, and private sector for transportation of oxygen."
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The cost of HRCT in the national capital is unregulated and very high beyond what a common man can afford
HRCT has, in the current state of circumstances, become one of the most relevant and vital tests, recommended actively by the doctors for the diagnosis of COVID-19
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday (May 3) issued a notice to the AAP Govt on a PIL seeking direction to cap the price of High-Resolution Computerised Tomography (HRCT) scan/test which is nowadays massively recommended to people having symptoms of COVID-19.
The PIL urged the High Court to direct the Delhi government to cap the price of High-Resolution Computerised Tomography (HRCT) which is used for detecting the presence and severity of COVID-19 infection in the lungs of patients.
25,986 new COVID-19 cases, 368 deaths recorded in Delhi; positivity rate over 31%
As per the latest health bulletin, the COVID-19 infection tally in Delhi stands at 10,53,701, the death toll is 14,616 and the number of active cases is 99,752
PTI | April 29, 2021 | Updated 10:01 IST
Delhi recorded 368 more COVID-19 deaths and 25,986 new cases of the infection on Wednesday with a positivity rate of 31.76 per cent, according to the latest bulletin issued by the city health department. This is the seventh day on the trot that Delhi has recorded over 300 deaths due to the coronavirus.
The city had reported 381 deaths on Tuesday, the highest since the pandemic began a year ago, 380 on Monday, 350 on Sunday, 357 on Saturday, 348 on Friday and 306 on Thursday, according to government data. The national capital had recorded 24,149 cases on Tuesday, 20,201 on Monday, 22,933 on Sunday, 24,103 on Saturday, 24,331 on Friday, 26,169 on Thursday, and 24,638 last Wednesday.
India News: India on Wednesday officially crossed the grim milestone of 200,000 deaths from the Covid-19 virus, according to the ministry of health data. The tota