Delhi Hospitals Turn Away COVID Patients as Oxygen Supply Depletes
Hospitals have either stopped new COVID-19 admissions, or began taking consent forms from relatives that they would not be liable if the patient died due to shortage of oxygen.
Relative react after the death of a family member due to COVID-19, as coronavirus cases surge in the national capital, at LNJP hospital in New Delhi, Tuesday, April 20, 2021. Photo: PTI
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With the oxygen crisis continuing unabated and unable to cope with the dwindling reserves, the heads of several private hospitals in Delhi on Saturday either stopped new COVID-19 admissions, urged some of the patients to move out or began taking consent forms from relatives that they would not be liable if the patient died due to shortage of oxygen. The hospitals also suggested that the Centre and Delhi government intervene in the matter and appoint nodal officers to take stock of the oxygen levels real time and address the situation.
After restricting admissions to its emergency department for an hour, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in the national national capital resumed admitting patients on Saturday evening.The AIIMS said in a statement that .
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City hospitals on Saturday continued to raise alarms about low levels of oxygen and some even stopped admissions of new patients.
Hospitals have been facing an oxygen shortage for at least the past seven days. Many hospitals also complained that contact numbers of nodal officers given by the Delhi government for oxygen supply was not responding to their calls.
Sir Ganga Ram Hospital raised an alarm at 11 p.m. on Saturday that the hospital had oxygen for only 45 minutes and sought help from the government. It said that they were in touch with nodal officers but no help has come yet. Finally, an oxygen tanker reached the hospital around 12.20 a.m. There were 130 people in ICU of the hospital and a total of over 500 COVID-19 patients.
Amid deepening crisis over the scarcity of oxygen, several hospitals in the national capital have been left with no option but to use their back up stock, with some like Saroj Super Speciality Hospital advising relatives to shift their patients to another facility. While Fortis Hospital (Shalimar Bagh), presently running on its back up oxygen supply, urged the prime minister, Delhi chief minister and other ministers for immediate assistance , Saroj Super Speciality, having not received oxygen refill for the past 44 hours, is now advising its patients to shift to other hospitals. We are running low on oxygen and using our back up now. We have alerted our patients about the situation, and are advising them to shift to another hospital. Things are really uncertain, P K Bhardwaj, medical director, Saroj Super Speciality Hospital, told PTI.
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