Two medical oxygen plants start supply at AIIMS-Delhi, RML Hospital
Kejriwal government has slammed Centre for not providing enough medical oxygen even after repeated demand of a rise in supply. Delhi has been receiving about 490 MT medical oxygen from Centre against Delhi government s demand of 976 metric tonnes of oxygen
BusinessToday.In | May 5, 2021 | Updated 14:33 IST
Centre says these two plants were installed in record time
Two PM CARES-funded medical oxygen plants have been installed at AIIMS, New Delhi, and RML Hospital in a week. This will help the national capital in meeting the medical oxygen requirement at a time Covid-19 is rising at an unprecedented pace across the country.
The national capital received 555 tonnes of oxygen on Tuesday, the highest till now, said AAP MLA Raghav Chadha as the city hospitals struggled with a shortage in the supply of the life-saving gas amid a spurt in coronavirus cases. While issuing the oxygen bulletin on Wednesday, he said the High Court has scolded the Centre and even compared it to an ostrich . Maybe because of this rap, Delhi received 555 metric tonnes (MT) of Liquid Medical Oxygen as against the requirement of 976 MT, which is the highest till now. However, this oxygen was not made available from regular sources but from an ad hoc arrangement. We did not receive it from our regular sources but Centre arranged it from other states and gave Delhi the oxygen that was being sent elsewhere, Chadha claimed.
The Delhi Corona app started showing the oxygen availability status in the hospitals.
New Delhi:
The Delhi Corona app, which provides information on beds and ventilators at hospitals in the city, on Wednesday started showing the oxygen availability status of these facilities.
As per the latest updates on the app, the Centre-run Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in Delhi has 18 hours of medical oxygen left.
Batra Hospital, where 12 patients died on Saturday due to an oxygen shortage, has 12 hours supply left of the life-saving gas.
The app, however, shows that the National Heart Institute in East of Kailash has 999 days and 23 hours of the gas left in its reserve.
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