13 black fungus cases reported in Anantapur in one day
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The first Oxygen Express, carrying 80 MT Liquid Medical Oxygen, arriving at the Tadipatri railway station on Tuesday.
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Officials told to identify exclusive hospitals for treating patients
Anantapur district on Tuesday reported 13 new cases of mucormycosis, also called black fungus, taking the total number of patients being treated in the Government General Hospital and other private hospitals to 40.
While the first 27 cases were reported in past five days, it is for the first time that the district saw 13 cases in one day. Officials, concerned at the rise in cases, have flagged shortage of drugs required for the treatment.
‘2,220 patients received treatment under Aarogyasri scheme in Anantapur’
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Pvt. hospitals halt new admissions under non-Aarogyasri category for want of oxygen beds
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Pvt. hospitals halt new admissions under non-Aarogyasri category for want of oxygen beds
Private and government hospitals in Anantapur district empanelled under Aarograsri have so far treated 2,220 COVID-19 patients under the scheme in the second wave.
As of Wednesday, over 5,000 patients in total have received treatment in all hospitals in non-oxygen-supported wards, oxygen-supported wards and ICU since the beginning of the the second wave. Out of them, 2,220 patients enrolled for Aarogyasri, the scheme district coordinator Kiran Kumar Reddy told The Hindu.
Oxygen availability gets worse as LMO supplies from Ballari stop
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Private hospitals empanelled under Aarogyasri stop admitting new patients
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The Liquid Medical Oxygen tanker at the refilling facility of the Kumar Oxygen in Anantapur. The LMO supplies from the Linde India, Ballari stopped on Friday. | Photo Credit: PRASAD RVS
Private hospitals empanelled under Aarogyasri stop admitting new patients
The supply of Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) from Linde India, an industrial oxygen production facility at Ballari, was stalled on Friday, which led to a shortage in the supply of bulk medical oxygen to private hospitals treating COVID-19 patients in Anantapur district.
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District Collector Gandham Chandrudu has served a show-cause notice on Vasudev Reddy, owner of Varasi Oxygen, the contractor supplying bulk medical oxygen to the hospitals in the district.
“Why should we not terminate the contract with you and suspend your licence for oxygen supply, for your failure to provide oxygen on time to the Cancer Hospital as contracted, which led to the death of two patients on Tuesday?” the notice, which was issued past midnight on Tuesday, questioned.
Superintendent of Cancer Hospital K. Bhaskar, who was in-charge of the COVID-19 patients, was also served a show-cause notice as to why disciplinary action should not be initiated against him for his failure to bring the issue of lack of oxygen to the notice of oxygen coordinator and DFO R. Jagannath Singh, or the Joint Collector (Development) till 7.30 p.m..
4 feared dead due to snag in oxygen supply in Anantapur
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Four persons are feared to have died due to a disruption in oxygen supply at the Cancer Hospital, that has been converted into a COVID-19 hospital connected to the Super Speciality Hospital. The incident is the third in as many days resulting in the death of COVID patients from alleged human error and lack of proper supervision at government hospitals in Anantapur district.
The Cancer Hospital has a 6 kilolitre liquid medical oxygen unit, but that was exhausted at 6 p.m. and the new supplies arrived only at 7.45 p.m. The four patients died in the intervening hour and 45 minutes, Anantapur Urban MLA Anantha Venkatarami Reddy told mediapersons outside the hospital. A large police contingent was deployed to maintain law and order.