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NGO provides oxygen to city hospitals Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA An initiative that began in the wake of acute oxygen shortage across the Capital when the second wave of the COVID-19 surged is still providing oxygen to almost a dozen hospitals in west Delhi. The Udaan Charitable Foundation, with the West Delhi administration, had rolled out oxygen supply vehicles to assist hospitals. The initiative is functional 24x7 for all hospitals in the district, said Harish Sahni. A carrier vehicle called an ‘oxygen supply vehicle’ is loaded with oxygen cylinders and then dispatched to hospitals which require urgent supply. The service has been able to cater to the oxygen demands of over a dozen hospitals including, Tilak Nagar, Paschim Vihar, Nangloi, Ganesh Nagar, Meera Bagh, Gagan Vihar among others. ....
12 critical Covid patients die at Batra Hospital in Delhi due to lack of oxygen Published : May 2, 2021, 12:30 am IST Updated : May 2, 2021, 12:30 am IST Dr Himthani, head of gastroenterology department, was among those who died due to lack of oxygen, said Dr S.C.L. Gupta, hospital director An ambulance arrives at Batra Hospital, a dedicated COVID-19 facility, in New Delhi. (PTI) New Delhi: Twelve critical Covid-19 patients died at the Batra Hospital in Delhi s Mehrauli area allegedly due to oxygen shortage. Six of the 12 people who died had been admitted to the hospital s ICU (intensive care unit) and among the deceased is the hospital’s gastroenteritis head, Dr R.K. Himthani (62). ....
Hospitals across the national capital had sent out SOS messages last week about depleting supplies of oxygen. Share Via Email | A+A A- By PTI NEW DELHI: Twelve patients at Delhi s Batra Hospital, including a senior doctor, died on Saturday and at least two other hospitals reported precipitous drops in their oxygen stocks, as the Delhi High Court stepped in and directed the Centre to provide the city with oxygen today itself or face contempt. With the death of the 12 patients in the south Delhi hospital which announced at 12.30 pm that it had run out of oxygen the number of hospital patients who have lost their lives in the deepening crisis in the last eight days has gone up to 57. ....
A senior doctor died along with seven other Covid patients in his own hospital because of an oxygen shortage despite the Delhi facility sending out an SOS for supplies on Saturday morning, officials have said. “We are trying to resuscitate five other critical patients,” said S.C.L. Gupta, medical director of the Batra Hospital which allegedly received oxygen at 1.35pm, more than an hour after it had run out of stocks. Gupta said that among the dead was Dr R.K. Himthani, head of the gastroenterology department who had been a patient at the hospital for over a fortnight. ....