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Aditi Tandon
New Delhi, April 26
In a big relief, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital received 64 refilled oxygen cylinders on Monday as amid oxygen supply crisis, the hospital has been battling an oxygen cylinder problem too.
The hospital has 104 oxygen cylinders, which are used for transferring extremely sick Covid patients from Covid emergency to ICU and from wards to ICU in case of an emergency.
This is happening very frequently currently with many sick patients being admitted. The hospital authorities earlier said all 104 cylinders were sent three days back to three different locations for emergency refill, but none have been returned so far. For the last three days, the hospital staff had been camping at the refill units, but to no avail, they had said.
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Aditi Tandon
New Delhi, April 26
In a big relief, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital received 64 refilled oxygen cylinders on Monday as amid oxygen supply crisis, the hospital has been battling an oxygen cylinder problem too.
The hospital has 104 oxygen cylinders, which are used for transferring extremely sick Covid patients from Covid emergency to ICU and from wards to ICU in case of an emergency.
This is happening very frequently currently with many sick patients being admitted. The hospital authorities earlier said all 104 cylinders were sent three days back to three different locations for emergency refill, but none have been returned so far. For the last three days, the hospital staff had been camping at the refill units, but to no avail, they had said.
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Hospitals in India plead for oxygen as country sets COVID-19 record
The world’s worst coronavirus surge is wearing out the nation, which on Friday set a global record in daily infections for a second straight day with 332,730.
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Health workers carry a patient Friday after a fire in Vijay Vallabh hospital at Virar, near Mumbai, India. The fire killed 13 COVID-19 patients in the hospital as an extreme surge in coronavirus infections leaves the nation short of medical care and oxygen.
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NEW DELHI India put oxygen tankers on special express trains as major hospitals in New Delhi begged on social media on Friday for more supplies to save COVID-19 patients who are struggling to breathe. More than a dozen people died when an oxygen-fed fire ripped through a coronavirus ward in a populous western state.
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