War of words between DCs continues
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I did not ration or control oxygen supplies to Chamarajanagar district, says Rohini Sindhuri
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I did not ration or control oxygen supplies to Chamarajanagar district, says Rohini Sindhuri
The war of words between the Deputy Commissioners of Mysuru and Chamarajanagar over the death of COVID-19 patients in Chamarajanagar district hospital due to non-availability of oxygen continued on Wednesday with the Deputy Commissioner of Mysuru Rohini Sindhuri clarifying that she neither rationed nor controlled oxygen supplies to Chamarajanagar.
“I categorically state that as Deputy Commissioner Mysuru, I did not ration or control oxygen supplies to Chamarajanagar district or any other district”, Ms Sindhuri said in a statement on Wednesday.
Spotlight over lack of overseeing agency in State
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May 05, 2021 23:38 IST
Districts that do not have oxygen manufacturing or refilling units are left to fend for themselves
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A file photo of people waiting outside the district hospital in Chamarajanagar.
Districts that do not have oxygen manufacturing or refilling units are left to fend for themselves
The death of 24 people on May 2 and 3, allegedly owing to shortage of oxygen highlights a larger issue that pervades the State: the absence of an agency for overseeing equitable distribution of medical oxygen to different parts of Karnataka.
One of the most backward districts in Karnataka, Chamarajanagar does not have either a medical oxygen manufacturing facility or refilling and distribution units. Its dependence on medical oxygen suppliers from outside the district, particularly neighbouring Mysuru, has gone up sharply at a time when the number of COVID-19 patients requiring oxygen increase
Deputy Commissioner of Mysuru Rohini Sindhuri has served a show-cause notice to K.R. Nagar tahsildar Manjula M. for shifting a COVID-19 patient from K.R. Nagar taluk to a hospital in Mysuru city inste
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Sindhuri stressed that hospitalisation is necessary only for severely sick COVID-19 patients with breathing difficulties
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Tulasidas Hospital in Mysuru, where the district administration is planning to set up a 100 oxygenated-bed facility.
Sindhuri stressed that hospitalisation is necessary only for severely sick COVID-19 patients with breathing difficulties
Deputy Commissioner of Mysuru Rohini Sindhuri on Monday said there is no shortage of oxygenated hospital beds in the district, but appealed to the mildly symptomatic COVID-19 patients not to occupy the beds in hospitals out of anxiety.
In a Facebook Live programme, Ms. Sindhuri said the second wave of COVID-19, which started in the second week of April, had resulted in the district reporting around 700 to 800 cases every day against the less than 100 cases that were reported during March this year. “The surge has been steep and sudden,” she remarked.