NEW DELHI: Just a week after 20 critically ill Covid-19 patients died at Jaipur Golden Hospital in the Capital because of lack of oxygen, at least 12 Covid-19 patients, including a senior doctor, died due to the same reason at Batra Hospital in New Delhi on Saturday. Confirming this to TOI, Dr S C L Gupta, medical director of the hospital, said: “They could have been saved.”
The city has been gasping for oxygen for a week now and the crisis seems to have only deepened.
The 500-bed hospital had around 326 Covid-19 patients. Of these, according to the medical director, 220 were on high-flow nasal oxygen while 48 were in the ICU requiring bi-pap and ventilator support when the supply was disrupted around 12.30pm.
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A COVID-19 victim at Batra Hospital being taken away for the last rites, on Saturday.
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Delhi BJP president Adesh Gupta on Saturday expressed grief over the loss of lives at Batra Hospital due to lack of oxygenand termed “shameful” that the oxygen crisis still persisted 10 days after it had erupted.
Mr. Gupta said on one hand, the government had not started lifting its enhanced oxygen quota while on the other it had acquired several oxygen plants in Delhi but had yet made no distribution plan.
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