SOS: Hospitals Gasp For Oxygen As Many Report Acute Shortage, Several Run Out; Check List
Here’s the list of private and government hospitals that are facing an acute shortage of oxygen supply currently: File photo Outlook Web Bureau 2021-04-23T08:20:22+05:30 SOS: Hospitals Gasp For Oxygen As Many Report Acute Shortage, Several Run Out; Check List outlookindia.com 2021-04-23T08:22:55+05:30
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Hospitals in the national capital are in dire of oxygen cylinders as Covid cases have shot up in Delhi. Hospitals with Covid infected patients continue to raise the alarm over shortage of oxygen and are constantly sending out SOS calls to the Delhi government and the Centre.
Six New Delhi hospitals run out of oxygen as supplies failed to reach Indian capital
From CNN s Esha Mitra in New Delhi
A public notice hangs outside Shanti Mukund Hospital on April 22 in New Delhi, India. Amal KS/Hindustan Times/Getty Images
At least six private hospitals in the Indian capital New Delhi ran out of oxygen Thursday, the city s deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia said in a letter to the union health minister on Thursday.
Even after the central government allocated 480 metric tonnes of oxygen for the capital on Wednesday, Delhi s advocate informed the Delhi high court on Thursday that the supplies had still not reached the capital.
No fresh admissions in some oxygen starved hospitals in Delhi
Despite receiving fresh stocks of oxygen cylinders and supplies last night, many hospitals on Thursday ran out of the supply and demanded government help.
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NEW DELHI: Citing acute shortage of oxygen, some private hospitals treating Covid patients on Thursday said they would not take fresh admissions. Various hospitals have requested families to shift their sick relatives or arrange for oxygen. “It is extremely distressing for doctors to say that our patients would die for want of oxygen supply,” Dr Sunil Sagar, chief executive officer of Shanti Mukund Hospital, told media persons, breaking into tears.
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Aditi Tandon
New Delhi, April 22
A major health emergency loomed over the national Capital on Thursday with several hospitals reporting exhaustion of medical oxygen. Health institutes, including Apollo, Fortis, Sir Ganga Ram and Shanti Mukund, sent an SOS to the government, forcing PM Narendra Modi to call an urgent review meeting.
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