Covid-19: Delhi Court Rebukes Indian Government Over Oxygen Crisis
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In voting shadowed by a catastrophic surge in coronavirus cases, the party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi lost a key state election. International aid has begun flowing into the country.
Oxygen cylinders outside a shop in South Delhi. A court said it would start punishing government officials for failing to deliver oxygen.Credit.Atul Loke for The New York Times
A severe shortage of medical oxygen in New Delhi, the center of power in India, has left people gasping for their final breaths in their hospital beds, a sign of government futility in its fight against a crushing Covid wave.
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The hospital is reporting record high admissions of coronavirus disease – even more than the surge last November. About 18% of the admissions at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital have COVID-19.
Dr. Barbara Creighton, who has been attending many of them, says the surge is preventable.
“There is the disconnect. You know, we have businesses opening, school buses flying, restaurants going, and we have visitors happening, and yet we have our highest case rates. And so, we are like does anybody see this? This place is on fire with COVID.”
Dr. Barbara Creighton reports to the Greater Fairbanks Community Hospital Foundation Board about patients she is tending on the COVID floor.
With local virus transmissions rising exponentially, Fairbanks Memorial Hospital is reporting record-high admissions of Covid patients who tend to be younger and sometimes angrier than at the beginning of the pandemic, health officials said Friday.
Foundation Health Partners leaders provided a Covid-19 update, pointing out the record-high admission rate at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital and describing changes in patient demographics.
Averaging at 10 and 11 new Covid patients per day this past week, the hospital had 12 Covid-19 patients on Friday and two more who were suspected to have the virus, said FHP Chief Medical Officer Dr. Angelique Ramirez.
âWe are really struggling right now; we have a record-high number of patients in the hospital,â Shelley Ebenal, FHP CEO and quality medical director, said.
Print article A year into the coronavirus pandemic, many Alaska hospitals have now at least partially loosened COVID-19 visitor restrictions. While policies have varied by facility and region, most now permit at least one visitor per patient a shift from most of last year, when family visitations were largely barred to prevent coronavirus spread. Families of patients in Alaska this past year have described how difficult and uncertain it could feel to be separated from their hospitalized loved ones, relying on calls from hospital staff for updates, and in some cases, not being able to be present when their family member died.
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