It was a pleasant surprise for Shiv Mohan and Bhagwan, two oxygen tanker drivers, when a car driver saluted them on a road in Uttar Pradesh on May 9. While Shiv Mohan was driving the tanker, Bhagwan was sitting alongside him. They have been taking turns to keep the wheels running non-stop to carry the key medical aid to hospitals.
NEW DELHI: It was a pleasant surprise for Shiv Mohan and Bhagwan, two oxygen tanker drivers, when a car driver saluted them on a road in Uttar Pradesh on May 9. While Shiv Mohan was driving the tanker, Bhagwan was sitting alongside him. They have been taking turns to keep the wheels running non-stop to carry the key medical aid to hospitals.
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NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Tuesday came down heavily on the prosecution in the oxygen concentrators hoarding case where various people, including Matrix Cellular CEO Gaurav Khanna and restaurateur Navneet Kalra, have been accused of black marketing and cheating.
Chief metropolitan magistrate Arun Kumar Garg was hearing the bail applications filed by Khanna and other arrested Gaurav Suri, Satish Sethi, Vikrant and Hitesh Kumar.
“You came out with an order on May 7 that one cannot sell (Covid-19 equipment) above the MRP but the FIR in this case is on May 5. Job of the government is not to create terror… You have to go by the law… If there is no law and you feel there is a vacuum then you fill it,” Garg said..
A K Rawat, 58, had served at the hospital for 27 years
NEW DELHI: To add to their woes about inadequate oxygen supplies in the past 18 days, Delhi hospitals have struggled with their staff being infected with Covid-19, in the process creating a work overload on the remaining medical teams.
At Saroj Super Specialty Hospital in Rohini, surgeon A K Rawat, 58, succumbed to Covid, further burdening the facility that has already had to close its labour, cardiology and neurology departments due to the 86 medical and support staff testing positive.
Other hospitals similarly told TOI about doctors and paramedics reaching a stage of utter exhaustion due to heavy workloads caused by truncated staff strengths. At least 317 people, including doctors and paramedic staff, have tested positive for the coronavirus in just four hospitals in the past month.