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May 02, 2021 18:07 IST
On May 1, 12 COVID-19 patients, including a senior doctor, had died at south Delhi’s Batra Hospital after the facility ran out of medical oxygen for around 80 minutes in the afternoon
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Relatives of COVID-19 patients wait outside a plant with empty medical oxygen cylinders for refilling, in West Delhi on May 2, 2021.
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Shiv Kumar Pushpakar
On May 1, 12 COVID-19 patients, including a senior doctor, had died at south Delhi’s Batra Hospital after the facility ran out of medical oxygen for around 80 minutes in the afternoon At least two hospitals in Delhi sent out desperate SOS calls to authorities on May 2 to replenish their dwindling oxygen stocks as smaller facilities continued to battle an acute shortage of the live-saving gas amid spiralling coronavirus cases. Madhukar Rainbow Children’s Hospital in Maviya on Sunday sounded an alarm about their depleting stocks around afternoon, saying 50 people, inclu
Delhi's Madhukar Rainbow Children Hospital Sunday sounded an alarm about their dwindling stocks of oxygen, saying 50 people, including four newborns, are "at risk".
NEW DELHI: At least two hospitals in Delhi sent out desperate SOS calls to authorities on Sunday to replenish their dwindling oxygen stocks as smaller facilities continued to battle an acute shortage of the live-saving gas amid spiralling coronavirus cases. Madhukar Rainbow Children s Hospital in Malviya on Sunday sounded an alarm about their depleting stocks around afternoon, saying 50 people, including four newborns, were at risk . An official of the hospital said in the afternoon there are around 80 patients, including those suffering from Covid-19, at the hospital. It also has 15 newborns, he said. There are 50 people, including four newborns, on oxygen support. They are at risk, he said. The hospital does not have a liquid oxygen storage tank and depends on oxygen cylinders from a private vendor.
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Opposition parties call for free and mass vaccination.
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So severe has been the oxygen crisis in the capital that many hospitals have had to approach the High Court to ensure uninterrupted oxygen supply.
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Opposition parties call for free and mass vaccination.
Top Opposition leaders on Sunday, in a joint statement, asked the government to focus all its attention on ensuring uninterrupted oxygen supply to hospitals across the country and undertake a mass, free vaccination programme against COVID-19.
The statement comes a day after at least 12 critical patients, including a doctor, died on Saturday at Batra Hospital, a leading private hospital in Delhi, because of an oxygen crisis.