Allahabad High Court has asked the Uttar Pradesh government to shorten the process of procurement of Covid vaccines from international producers, suggesting that the state deal directly with foreign companies instead of inviting tenders.
“We are of the opinion that tender is a long-drawn process and if we run late in vaccinating a large portion of the population of the state, we may lose the real desired result of vaccination as the virus may mutate, which may neutralise the vaccines also,” the bench of Justices Siddharth Varma and Ajit Kumar said on Friday while hearing a PIL.
“Since a large number of people are getting infected every day and scientists are of the view that a third wave is almost at the doorstep of India, it is necessary that (the) government enters into direct dialogue with vaccine producers with the help of Indian diplomats in those countries. We must remember that in the context of the Covid-19 virus, unless every individual is protected, no one is safe,�
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âYogi has left us to die : Oxygen crisis devastates Meerut
The chief medical officer insists that there is no oxygen shortage. But in the districtâs biggest hospital, lack of oxygen is killing Covid patients.
04 May, 2021
On April 30, Deepak Chhabra stood inside the Covid emergency ward at Meerutâs Lala Lajpat Rai Memorial Medical College, giving real-time updates of his wife Lataâs condition to his relatives. Deepak and Lata got married a couple of months ago.
Half an hour later, Deepak stood weeping outside. âMausi, she died,â he shouted into the phone. âShe said she would be by my side for life. But she left me.â
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(CNN) For three days, Goldi Patel, 25, went from hospital to hospital in New Delhi s oppressive summer heat, frantically trying to find one that would keep her husband breathing.
Four hospitals turned away Patel, who is seven months pregnant with the couple s first child, before she finally found one that would take him. But the level of care at Sardar Patel Covid Care Centre and Hospital, a makeshift pandemic facility on the outskirts of the capital, is so lacking that her husband is begging to leave.
Around Sadanand Patel, 30, people are dying. He has barely any contact with doctors, and limited medicine. With 80% of his lungs already infected, he s terrified of what happens if his condition gets worse.
The COVID-19 hospital in India that is so bad patients want to get out
For three days, Goldi Patel, 25, went from hospital to hospital in New Delhi s oppressive summer heat, frantically trying to find one that would keep her husband breathing.
Four hospitals turned away Patel, who is seven months pregnant with the couple s first child, before she finally found one that would take him.
But the level of care at Sardar Patel Covid Care Centre and Hospital, a makeshift pandemic facility on the outskirts of the capital, is so lacking that her husband is begging to leave.
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