Delhi facing oxygen shortage despite Centre increasing its quota: Sisodia
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Manish Sisodia . (File Photo: IANS). Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, April 22 : Several private hospitals in Delhi are running out of oxygen for Covid-19 patients with many of them making makeshift arrangements to ensure that the patients could be saved, the Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi, Manish Sisodia, said on Thursday.
Addressing a press conference, Sisodia, who is also the nodal minister for Covid management in the national capital, warned that more than a dozen hospitals have oxygen stock that will last for just a few more hours.
Delhi gasping for oxygen for 3rd day in a row, hospitals raise alarm
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Patna: Workers unload oxygen cylinders for COVID-19 patient at Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH), amid the rise in Covid-19 cases across the Country, in Patna, On Thursday, 22 April, 2021.(Photo:AFTAB ALAM SIDDIQUI /IANS). Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, April 22 : With an exponential surge in Covid-19 cases in the national capital, hospitals with Covid infected patients in need of oxygen support continued to raise the alarm over shortage of oxygen to draw the attention of the Delhi Government s healthcare system.
The Delhi government stated on Wednesday that the city is gasping for oxygen for the last over 50 hours. The healthcare system of the Delhi government has been on its toes since the last few days with Delhi battling for beds to accommodate the increasing Covid infected patients daily.
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No reaction was immediately available from the Haryana government. According to an official, Sir Ganga Ram City Hospital at Pusa Road had five hours of oxygen left around 4:30 pm. There are 58 COVID patients, including 10 in ICU, in the hospital. The vendor, as per its representative, is not being allowed by the Haryana government to supply oxygen cylinders and liquid oxygen to Sir Ganga Ram City Hospital, Pusa Road. Supply left is sufficient only for five hours, the official said. He said the Centre needs to intervene as a large number of hospitals are affected due to the stoppage of oxygen supply from Haryana .
Delhi hospitals allege Haryana govt not allowing vendors to supply oxygen to them
Delhi hospitals allege Haryana govt not allowing vendors to supply oxygen to them
Amid a serious oxygen crisis unfolding in the city, many Delhi hospitals have said that the Haryana government was not allowing vendors to supply oxygen to them.
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UPDATED: April 21, 2021 19:15 IST
To meet their own demand, the supply of oxygen to Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan, from which Haryana previously obtained oxygen, has been halted (PTI Photo/Representative)
Several hospitals in Delhi on Wednesday alleged that the Haryana government was not allowing vendors to supply oxygen to them and there is only limited stock left as hundreds of coronavirus patients battled for their life in these healthcare facilities.