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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has been meeting the second wave of the COVID-19 challenge on a war footing. Sonam Saigal reports on how the civic body learnt lessons from the first wave and adopted a decentralised approach which is showing results slowly but surely
ISSUE DATE: May 10, 2021
UPDATED: May 1, 2021 18:49 IST
A Covid-19 patient, on oxygen support outside Delhi’s
LNJP Hospital, waits to be admitted (Amal KS/Getty Images)
On the night of April 23, Subhash Varma, a 53-year-old healthcare professional, and his wife Anuja returned exhausted to their flat in Dwarka, a suburb in southwestern Delhi. They had spent a harrowing day trying to get Anuja’s severely ill sister Tanuja Vidyarthi into the emergency ward at the Jaipur Golden Hospital, a designated Covid-19 treatment centre in Rohini, 22 kilometres away. A schoolteacher from Karol Bagh, Tanuja, 53, had tested positive for Covid on April 16 and rushed to the hospital after her blood oxygen level plummeted to under 70.
Ramp up Oxygen.
Ramp up Oxygen Provisions Under Plan B, Get Ready for 6 Lakh COVID Cases a Day: Empowered Group-1 under Dr Paul
The report had alerted the government about the impending surge in COVID cases and the need for ICU beds in September last year
| 26 April 2021 8:43 AM GMT
New Delhi: An Empowered Group of Officers under Niti Aayog Member for Health, Dr V K Paul have recommended extraordinary measures to ramp up oxygen provision under a Plan B to meet a surge of 6 lakh new COVID cases a day.
The report submitted about 10 days back (just days before the country saw several deaths due to lack of oxygen) group had told authorities, including the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoH&FW), to take immediate measures for oxygen provision to meet a surge of 3 lakh new cases a day by April 20, and a surge of 5 lakh new cases a day by end of April.
No authority allowed to halt and divert oxygen carrying vehicles, says Centre
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Last Updated: Apr 23, 2021, 06:59 AM IST
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This was done soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi directed officials at a meeting on oxygen availability that supply must be ensured in a “smooth, unhindered manner”. He said that it was important to “fix responsibility with the local administration in cases of obstruction”. The PM also stressed that the states should come down heavily on hoarding.
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The Centre on Thursday invoked stringent provisions under the Disaster Management Act, 2005 to make it clear that no authority would be allowed to halt and divert oxygen carrying vehicles, adding that district authorities will be held responsible in case of any violation.