The Centre has told the Gujarat High Court that it is augmenting oxygen supply for COVID-19 patients from all available sources within India and also importing it from other countries through diplomatic channels as well as personal intervention of the political executive . In a report on the supply of medical oxygen submitted before the HC on Monday, the Centre said a total allocation of 8,410 metric tonnes of oxygen has been made for 22 high burden states and Union Territories based on their demand, the Centre told the HC on Tuesday. The states should also make an effort to manage their oxygen demand through rational usage of this scarce and critical resource by continuous and close monitoring of hospitals and stringent audit of the oxygen usage, it said
Augumenting oxygen supply from all sources: Centre to Gujarat HC on COVID crisis
Any deviation by any judicial order based upon fact, situation and considerations existing in one state will completely frustrate the whole exercise and shall have a cascading effect , it said.
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AHMEDABAD: The Centre has told the Gujarat High Court that it is augmenting oxygen supply for COVID-19 patients from all available sources within India and also importing it from other countries through diplomatic channels as well as personal intervention of the political executive .
In a report on the supply of medical oxygen submitted before the HC on Monday, the Centre said a total allocation of 8,410 metric tonnes of oxygen has been made for 22 high burden states and Union Territories based on their demand, the Centre told the HC on Tuesday.
AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat high court on Tuesday suggested the state government to take “urgent and serious steps” to curb the situation and impose lockdown for 3-4 days to curb the rising Covid cases.
The bench of Chief Justice Vikram Nath and Justice B D Karia summoned the top law officers of the government – advocate general Kamal Trivedi and government pleader Manisha Shah - and told them to convey the court’s concerns to the decision makers to take immediate steps.
After a brief discussion, the chief justice told the law officers, “You may please convey our concerns to the decision makers that urgent and serious steps need to be taken to check this (Covid-19 spread) otherwise things will go out of hand.”