Oxygen Crisis: 25 Patients Die in Delhi s Jaipur Golden Hospital
According to reports, the hospital was expected to receive its quota of oxygen at 5:30 pm on Friday, but only received it at midnight.
Jaipur Golden Hospital in Delhi. Photo: Twitter/@JGHospital
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New Delhi: The crisis of oxygen shortage in the national capital has resulted in the deaths of 25 more COVID-19 patients, as the critical care unit of the Jaipur Golden Hospital in Rohini ran dry of stock, resulting in low oxygen pressure to these patients.
While initial news reports said that 20 critically ill patients died overnight, the hospital informed the Delhi high court that 25 people died because it did not have oxygen supply.
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“We will not spare anyone,” a bench of Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Rekha Palli remarked during another special hearing following urgent petitions filed by hospitals and others on shortage of oxygen.
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A patient receives oxygen outside a gurdwara in New Delhi on April 24, 2021. | Photo Credit: AP
“We will not spare anyone,” a bench of Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Rekha Palli remarked during another special hearing following urgent petitions filed by hospitals and others on shortage of oxygen.
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Kejriwal said that due to record rise in daily coronavirus cases, the oxygen provided by the Centre is proving “inadequate”. Many Delhi hospitals have run out of oxygen, the Delhi CM said.
The positivity rate reached 32.43 per cent on Friday.
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday (April 24) urged Chief Ministers of all states to provide spare oxygen to the national capital amid acute shortage of life-saving gas.
In his letter, the AAP supremo requested his counterparts to treat his message as SOS. Kejriwal also informed due to record rise in daily coronavirus cases, the oxygen provided by the Centre is proving “inadequate”.
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Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare, Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, Dr. Harsh Vardhan.
Amid oxygen shortage in the national capital, Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Saturday said Delhi has been allotted more than the quota they had asked for and now to rationalise it in a timely manner and the responsibility to finely plan it lies with the state government. Delhi has been allotted more than the (oxygen) quota they had asked for, and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal even thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for that yesterday. now to rationalise the quota in a timely manner and the responsibility to finely plan it lies with state government, Dr Harsh Vardhan said.
| | Published: April 23, 2021 11:20 am
सर गंगाराम अस्पताल (Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in delhi in hindi) में पिछले 24 घंटों में 25 मरीजों ने दम तोड़ा है।
दिल्ली के सबसे बड़े प्राइवेट अस्पतालों में से एक सर गंगा अस्पताल ने ही कोरोना की इस लहर में हाथ खड़े कर दिए हैं। अस्पताल की हालत ये है कि सारे बेड लगभग कोरोना मरीजों से फुल हैं, अस्पताल के बाहर नए मरीजों का तांता लगा है लेकिन अस्पताल इस हालत में नहीं है कि उन्हें भर्ती कर इला�