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Hospital executive director Sudhanshu Bankata claimed he had been pleading for oxygen replenishment since 7 am today. He said he wanted this “torture to end”. “Eight patients died for want of oxygen initially. The toll has climbed to 12. Our senior gastroenterologist Dr MK Himthani too succumbed to the virus. I hope this situation does not arise again,” he said.
Bankata, in a grim prophecy, said more patients could die as supplies remained weak. “Let’s hope and pray that this torture and trial by fire ends soon. We have 230 patients on high flow oxygen and all of them were without oxygen for over 80 minutes,” he said.
Day after 12 deaths, Batra Hospital gets 2.5-tonne liquid oxygen
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New Delhi, May 2 : A day after 12 patients, including a doctor, died due to oxygen shortage at Delhi s Batra Hospital, the facility in south Delhi on Sunday received 2.5-tonne liquid medical oxygen.
S.C.L. Gupta, the medical director of Batra Hospital, confirmed that an oxygen tanker carrying the life-saving gas arrived at its Mehrauli-based facility where 12 people lost their lives on Saturday afternoon due to lack of medical oxygen for over an hour. An oxygen tanker from INOX carrying 2.5-tonne liquid oxygen had reached Batra at around 12 noon. Supply to sustain till 11 p.m., Gupta said.
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Read more about 12 die at Delhi hospital due to oxygen shortage; HC says enough is enough on Business Standard. Around 12.30 pm, the hospital authorities claimed they had run out of oxygen. The oxygen tanker arrived at 1.35 pm, they said