Over 4,000 indoor patients are admitted in 400-odd private hospitals of the city. If the oxygen supply is not restored immediately, hospitals will be forced to discharge patients,” said Dr Nirmal Choraria
VADODARA/SURAT/AHMEDABAD: The spectre of crippling oxygen shortage threatening to snuff out Covid-19 affected lives is looming large in Gujarat. Growing need of gasping Covid-19 patients has rendered 1,000MT availability of the gas insufficient as hospitals across cities and towns reportedly struggled to treat unabated flow of breathless patients.
The state government informed the Gujarat high court on Monday that there are 52,036 Covid patients currently on oxygen support across the state. “With the surge in cases, oxygen demand has risen from 58 MT on March 15 to 1,000 MT on April 24.
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The arrested accused with the vials
Surat: Two homeopathy doctors were among five persons arreted for black marketing of remdesivir injections in yet another racket that was busted in the city on Sunday.
The prevention of crime branch (PCB) recovered three vials of the injection which they were selling at almost 15 times the market price.
One of the arrested doctors had purchased six vials from an unidentified person on New Civil Hospital (NCH) campus for Rs 7,000 each. The accused were searching for buyers to sell for Rs 14,000 per vial. Police arrested Dr Hitesh Dabhi and Dr Sahil Ghoghari, Jaimish Jikadra, Bhadresh Nakrani and Jenish Kakadiya. Kakadiya was arrested near Bhagal Cross Road on Saturday night with three vials. During interrogation, he named Bhadresh who was caught from Punagam and later names of other accused were revealed.