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Amid deepening crisis over the scarcity of oxygen, several hospitals in the national capital have been left with no option but to use their back up stock, with some like Saroj Super Speciality Hospital advising relatives to shift their patients to another facility. While Fortis Hospital (Shalimar Bagh), presently running on its back up oxygen supply, urged the prime minister, Delhi chief minister and other ministers for immediate assistance , Saroj Super Speciality, having not received oxygen refill for the past 44 hours, is now advising its patients to shift to other hospitals. We are running low on oxygen and using our back up now. We have alerted our patients about the situation, and are advising them to shift to another hospital. Things are really uncertain, P K Bhardwaj, medical director, Saroj Super Speciality Hospital, told PTI.
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The situation is equally worrisome at the Fortis Hospital, which is running on its back up oxygen supply, desperately waiting for the refill since morning.
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NEW DELHI: Narin Sehgal, the director of a hospital in Delhi, really don t know how to help his patients in a situation like this.
Amid an unprecedented crisis over oxygen supply as the second coronavirus wave ravages the country, some helpless hospitals in Delhi are advising relatives to shift their patients to another facility, while several others have been left with no option but to use their backup stock.
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NEW DELHI: The current wave of Covid-19 is sparing no one. City hospitals say they are getting infants as young as eight months old with severe symptoms of the disease, including persistent fever and pneumonia, necessitating admission. Earlier, it was believed that Covid-19 in children was mostly harmless and moderate to severe symptoms, if any, were rare.
“We have eight children admitted to the hospital with severe symptoms of Covid-19 presently. One of them is eight months old. The others are also less than 12 years in age. They have high fever, pneumonia, dehydration and loss of taste, among others,” Dr Suresh Kumar, the medical director of Lok Nayak Hospital, told TOI.