Delhi hospitals still running out of oxygen
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New Delhi, April 29 : Hospitals in the national capital continue to face shortage of oxygen, with the Sehgal Neo Hospitals and Rosewood Hospitals now raising alarm over their depleting stocks.
In a series of tweets, Sehgal Neo Hospital said: We need Oxygen. One hour of oxygen left for 70 out of 150 patients on O2 support. Latest govt orders removed our old vendor Seth (LMO tank) and assigned Paramount (only cylinder) who can t supply capacity we need. We are distressed that we have to do this again. We have received so much help. Our staff is working 24X7, but this is the crisis we have faced every few hours for the last 10 days. Please help us save lives and continue to do our work.
Oxygen crisis: Delhi s Sehgal Neo Hospital left with 1 hour of oxygen supply ANI | Updated: Apr 29, 2021 14:47 IST
New Delhi [India], April 29 (ANI): Delhi s Sehgal Neo Hospital on Thursday sent out an SOS over oxygen shortage and informed that the hospital is left with just one hour of medical oxygen for COVID-19 patients. 70 out of 150 patients are on medical oxygen support. Currently, we are operating on a dangerously low supply which can lead to a very serious patient incident including loss of life, the hospital said in a statement issued. 13 of our patients are in the ICU or on ventilator and their lives can be under threat in case the oxygen supply is interrupted, the hospital said.
Hospitals in the national capital continue to face shortage of oxygen, with the Sehgal Neo Hospitals and Rosewood Hospitals now raising alarm over their depleting stocks. In a series of tweets, Sehgal Neo Hospital said, "We need Oxygen. One hour of oxygen left for 70 out of 150 patients on O2 support. Latest govt orders removed our old vendor Seth (LMO tank) and assigned Paramount (only cylinder) who can t supply capacity we need." "We are distressed that we have to do this again. We have received so much help. Our staff is working 24X7, but this is the crisis we have faced every few hours for the last 10 days. Please help us save lives and continue to do our work." On Thursday, India reported 3,645 deaths over the past 24 hours, while confirmed new cases hit a new global record with more than 379,000. The official numbers are widely believed to be far lower than the reality. The pandemic has claimed at least 3.1 million lives around the world, with India accounting
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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.
At 1 p.m. on Saturday, the Delhi government website
Coronabeds.jantasamvad.org showed there were 1,798 COVID-19 beds available in 46 hospitals across the Capital. However, when
The Hindu contacted these hospitals, only one said it had vacancy, and that too for pregnant women.
Contact numbers for the hospitals, both government and private, are available on the website. Reflecting the immense pressure on hospitals as new infections and deaths continue to surge in the city, many of the phone calls by this reporter went unanswered, or were met with either a busy signal or an ‘out of order’ message.
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