Give India Foundation to donate 2,000 oxygen concentrators
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Bengaluru-based Give India Foundation has come forward to donate 2,000 oxygen concentrators and the first batch of 80 concentrators was handed over to GKVK Covid Care Centre on Saturday.
These concentrators, of 10 litres capacity,would augment the care being given in the Covid Care Centre, said Deputy Chief Minister and State COVID task force head C.N. Ashwath Narayan. He added that now infected patients here can undergo treatment without having to panic about the non-availability or shortage of oxygen.
Hospital coming up
A 250-bed COVID hospital will be set up in Yelahanka region immediately by Boeing company, manufacturers of Boeing jets, and the work has already been initiated. Boeing was also willing to set up another 250-bed COVID hospital in the same region.
Sub-inspector Mohan Dagade is survived by his wife and two sons.
MUMBAI: A police sub-inspector attached with the Vakola police station died while undergoing treatment for Covid-19 early on Monday.
Mohan Dagade (54) did not show any signs of discomfort at BKC’s Covid Care Centre till late Sunday and was expecting to get discharged in a day or two when suddenly his condition deteriorated.
Dagade was tested positive for coronavirus and got admitted to the Covid Care Centre on April 4 after he complained of mild fever. He had comorbidities.
“Doctors said that Dagade was responding well with the treatment. His breathing rate was 96 which suddenly dipped past-midnight and at around 3.30am he died,” said a police officer.