Delhi private hospitals setting up own oxygen plants to tackle possible third Covid wave indiatoday.in - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from indiatoday.in Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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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Delhi records steepest ever single-day new Covid-19 cases of 11,491; 72 deaths
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Meanwhile, Delhi Govt declares 14 large private hospitals as full Covid hospitals to tackle the crisis. The national capital Delhi recorded 11,491 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the Delhi State Health bulletin showed on Monday evening.
This is the steepest ever daily rise in new Covid-19 cases since the beginning of the pandemic last year.
As many as 72 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours,, and as many as 92,397 tests were conducted, it added.
Test positivity ratio shot up to 12.44 per cent, raising concern that the pandemic may have gone beyond control in the ongoing fourth wave.