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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The Fortis Hospital in Shalimar Bagh, presently running on its backup oxygen supply, urged the prime minister, Delhi chief minister and other ministers for immediate assistance . PTI Outlook Web Bureau 2021-04-24T20:08:24+05:30 Please Help : Delhi Hospitals Plead For Assistance Amid Acute Oxygen Shortage outlookindia.com 2021-04-24T20:11:00+05:30
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Amid an alarming crisis over oxygen supply as the second coronavirus wave ravages the country, some helpless hospitals in Delhi are advising relatives to shift their patients to another facility, while several others have been left with no option but to use their backup stock.
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The in-charge informed that the hospital has 70 critical COVID-19 infected patients and need oxygen immediately.
Saroj Hospital had filed a plea at the Delhi High Court seeking urgent directions to facilitate an urgent critical oxygen supply to it.
At least twenty critically ill patients died overnight at Jaipur Golden Hospital in Delhi due to oxygen crisis.
New Delhi: As several hospitals in the national capital have been flagging oxygen shortage, Delhi’s Saroj Super Speciality Hospital on Saturday (April 24) stated that they have stopped admitting new patients due to lack of oxygen supply.
Facing acute shortage of oxygen, the hospital, situated in Rohini, has also started discharging all old patients.
The Delhi High Court on Saturday asked the Centre about the preparedness to deal with the expected COVID-19 second wave peak in mid-May, terming the massive rise in cases as a tsunami , and warned it will hang any person who tries to obstruct oxygen supplies to hospitals here. Talking tough, a bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli, said this during a special hearing on a holiday on the issue of mounting oxygen crisis in various hospitals in Delhi. The court said the viral disease has a low mortality and those who have a low immunity will eventually die but the problem comes when people who could be saved are also dying. The mortality rate needs to be reduced.