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Delhi govt allows hospitals to engage retired nursing, para-medical staff.
Amid a massive surge in COVID-19 cases in the city, the Delhi government on Tuesday allowed hospitals to engage retired nursing and para-medical staff to handle the situation. In view of the surge of the COVID pandemic and to meet the demand of increased manpower, the medical directors/medical superintendents/directors of all COVID Hospitals of the Delhi government are authorised to engage nursing and para-medical staff who have either retired as on March 31, 2021 or are retiring soon on contractual basis for a period of six months or up to September 30 whichever is earlier, an official order said.
A total of eight pressure swing adsorption (PSA) oxygen generation plants are being installed in Delhi through the PM CARES Fund. This development comes at a time when hospitals treating Covid-19 patients in the national capital are struggling for medical oxygen.
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892 Most of them have been receiving âemergency suppliesâ with the help of the Delhi government. PTI file photo
New Delhi, April 23
The Delhi government-run Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty Hospital on Friday reduced the number of COVID beds from 650 to 350 due to shortage of oxygen, officials said.
All 350 beds at the hospital are ICU beds, they said.
Asked if not enough oxygen was the reason to reduce the number of such beds, Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty Hospital (RGSSH) Medical Director B L Sherwal replied, Yes. A source said it was becoming increasingly difficult to operationalise more beds in view of oxygen shortage .
Delhi s Jaipur Golden Hospital sends out oxygen SOS, says 200 lives at stake
The Jaipur Golden Hospital in New Delhi, where more than 20 patients died on Friday night owing to shortage of medical oxygen, has sent out an SOS message on social media.
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UPDATED: April 24, 2021 22:58 IST
[REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE] More than 20 lives were lost at the Golden Jaipur Hospital in Delhi on Friday owing to lack of medical oxygen (Photo Credits: PTI)
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Two Covid patients died at Sardar Patel Hospital in Delhi due to oxygen shortage
Delhi CM wrote to the chief ministers of all states asking them to spare any medical oxygen they can