A Covid-19 patient waits for admission outside LNJP Hospital
NEW DELHI: Twenty Covid patients, who had gone to Jaipur Golden Hospital in Rohini looking to get cured and survive the pandemic, ended up dead on Friday night because of shortage of oxygen. In a rare move, a desperate hospital administration went public with the news, perhaps hoping to wake up the authorities from their stupor.
Dr D K Baluja, medical director of the hospital, said that of the 20 patients who died on Friday night, 19 were under critical care requiring ventilator support and high-flow oxygen administered via high-flow nasal cannula among others. We were supposed to receive our oxygen supply at 5.30pm on Friday and had plans in place to pull through for another two to three hours. But when the oxygen supply didn t arrive for five hours, we had to use 50 big cylinders kept in reserve to continue oxygen therapy to the patients. It couldn t deliver oxygen with the required pressure, leading to the death of s
Cuba reports 820 Covid-19 cases
Cuba reports 820 Covid-19 cases
Havana, Feb 7 (Prensa Latina) The Public Health Ministry announced today that 820 people were diagnosed with the SARS-Cov-2 virus, bringing the total number of infections in Cuba to 32,831.
At a press conference, the national director of Epidemiology, Francisco Durán, informed that five patients died as a result of Covid-19, a disease caused by the new coronavirus, which increases the list of deaths to 238.
He also specified that 17,787 samples were analyzed, for a total of 2,011,405 PCR tests carried out to detect the presence of the virus since its presence in the country last March.