In New Delhi alone, one death from Covid-19 is being reported every four minutes and ambulances around India have been taking the bodies of victims to makeshift crematoriums in parks and parking lots, where bodies burn on rows of funeral pyres.
NEW DELHI: Twenty-five sickest Covid-19 patients have died at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Delhi, in the last 24 hours, and the lives of another 60 such patients are at risk, officials said on Friday amid a serious oxygen crisis unfolding in the national capital.
As per a source low-pressure oxygen could be the likely cause of the deaths. The oxygen stock will last another two hours. Ventilators and BiPAP machines are not working effectively, a senior official at the hospital said.
Hospital officials said that another major crisis is likely as the lives of 60 more sickest patients are at risk.
According to an official, hospital authorities are resorting to manual ventilation in ICUs and the emergency department.
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