We are supposed to give life. If we cannot give even oxygen, our patients will die, said Sunil Kumar Saggar, CEO of Shanti Mukand Hospital in Karkardooma, in a choked voice around 2.43pm on Thursday with his hospital left with just two hours of oxygen. He was anxious about the 110 Covid patients in their care.
The crisis had started brewing at this 200-bed hospital around 3am. Out of the 110 Covid patients, 12 were on ventilator with one consuming 18 litres of oxygen per minute. Saggar, along with a couple of doctors, reviewed the situation and hoped to survive for some more hours, relying on the 1.7 metric tonnes of oxygen received from their vendor a day earlier. By 5am, more doctors had arrived. However, as the day progressed, the hospital realised it would soon run out of oxygen.
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Supposed To Give Life.We Can t Even Give Oxygen : Doctor Breaks Down Conditions are equally deplorable, if not worse, in Delhi s smaller medical facilities where oxygen shortage has wreaked havoc.
Updated: April 22, 2021 6:22 pm IST
Dr Sunil Saggar, CEO of New Delhi s Shanti Mukand Hospital, broke down on camera.
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Some of the biggest hospitals in Delhi have over the past few days suffered the worst of the mayhem caused by the second wave of COVID-19. Conditions are equally deplorable, if not worse, in the smaller medical facilities of the National Capital Territory where the oxygen shortage crisis has turned nighmarish. So much so that one distraught senior doctor today broke down on camera while talking about his patients precarious situation and having to discharge many of them out of turn.
Visual from Shanti Mukund Hospital. (Photo/ANI)
Delhi s Shanti Mukund hospital chief breaks down, says only two hours of oxygen supply left ANI | Updated: Apr 22, 2021 19:49 IST
New Delhi [India], April 22 (ANI): Delhi s Shanti Mukand Hospital chief Dr Sunil Saggar broke into tears on Thursday saying that they have only two hours of oxygen supply left.
Talking to ANI, Saggar said he had told doctors to discharge patients who can be discharged. Stating that 110 people are on oxygen support, he broke down saying that patients would die if they come here as they did not have oxygen. Our oxygen stock has almost finished. Because of the COVID situation, the demand has increased. In a normal patient, we give 2, 4 or 6 litres of oxygen but when a patient of COVID comes we may have to give 14, 15 litres or 18 litres depending upon the severity of the disease, said Saggar.
‘6 hospitals ran out of oxygen’
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U.P. and Haryana governments trying to hoard oxygen: Sisodia
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U.P. and Haryana governments trying to hoard oxygen: Sisodia
At least six private hospitals treating COVID-19 patients ran out of liquid medical oxygen on Thursday, as per the Delhi government, with several hospitals stating during the day that they had dangerously low levels of oxygen.
Many hospitals said that they arranged oxygen cylinders to manage the shortage, while some had to ask patients to shift to somewhere else.
Oxygen supply to hospitals in Delhi has been a problem for the past five days and the Delhi government has been blaming U.P. and Haryana governments for disrupting supply from private companies to Delhi.