According to the officials of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, there are more than 510 COVID-19 patients admitted in the hospital out of whom 142 patients are on high flow oxygen support.
Apr 23, 2021
NEW DELHI – Pankaj Solanki, a doctor and the director of a small hospital in New Delhi, rushed to an oxygen vendor earlier this week to secure enough cylinders to keep 10 COVID-19 patients on the ICU ward breathing.
His supplies would only last until Thursday night, and so he has sent a driver out to try to find more.
“It is mental agony. I can’t bear it any more. What if something happens to the patients?” he said.
The last-minute scramble for oxygen at Dharamveer Solanki Hospital is playing out across the city and the country, which is facing the world’s largest surge in COVID-19 cases.
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.