A Covid-19 patient waits for admission outside LNJP Hospital
NEW DELHI: Twenty Covid patients, who had gone to Jaipur Golden Hospital in Rohini looking to get cured and survive the pandemic, ended up dead on Friday night because of shortage of oxygen. In a rare move, a desperate hospital administration went public with the news, perhaps hoping to wake up the authorities from their stupor.
Dr D K Baluja, medical director of the hospital, said that of the 20 patients who died on Friday night, 19 were under critical care requiring ventilator support and high-flow oxygen administered via high-flow nasal cannula among others. We were supposed to receive our oxygen supply at 5.30pm on Friday and had plans in place to pull through for another two to three hours. But when the oxygen supply didn t arrive for five hours, we had to use 50 big cylinders kept in reserve to continue oxygen therapy to the patients. It couldn t deliver oxygen with the required pressure, leading to the death of s
Steel plants, which produce oxygen, are ramping up manufacturing to try to meet demand. On Thursday night, a train, dubbed the âOxygen Expressâ, began its first journey from a steel facility in Andhra Pradesh carrying seven tankers each loaded with 15 tonnes of liquid medical oxygen.
The first âOxygen Expressâ train loaded with liquid medical oxygen tankers has left for Maharashtra from Vizag.
Railways continues to serve the nation in difficult times by transporting essential commodities and driving innovation to ensure the wellbeing of all citizens. pic.twitter.com/4t7ZKbjeIT Piyush Goyal (@PiyushGoyal) April 22, 2021
The virus has spread with unprecedented speed in India, with health experts blaming lax measures, political failings and a more infectious variant. On Friday morning, India reported another record-breaking daily case load of 332,348 in the previous 24 hours. It followed news on Thursday that India had registered the highest number of infections