Twenty-five Covid-19 patients at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital died over 24 hours and the lives of 60 more hang in balance, officials said on Friday as the scramble for oxygen got more frantic in hospitals across Delhi.
Sources said “low pressure oxygen” was the likely cause of the deaths in Ganga Ram, one of the city’s biggest and most high-profile hospitals, where healthcare staff were reduced to manually ventilating patients in the intensive-care unit and emergency department.
The hospital announced the deaths shortly after 8am on Friday.
An oxygen tanker reached Ganga Ram at 9.20am with supply enough to last about five hours depending on consumption, a hospital official said.