Hospitals across Delhi have started ramping up infrastructure to ensure availability of essential equipment, drugs and ICU beds for children as part of their plan to tackle a possible third wave of the coronavirus.
A K Rawat, 58, had served at the hospital for 27 years
NEW DELHI: To add to their woes about inadequate oxygen supplies in the past 18 days, Delhi hospitals have struggled with their staff being infected with Covid-19, in the process creating a work overload on the remaining medical teams.
At Saroj Super Specialty Hospital in Rohini, surgeon A K Rawat, 58, succumbed to Covid, further burdening the facility that has already had to close its labour, cardiology and neurology departments due to the 86 medical and support staff testing positive.
Other hospitals similarly told TOI about doctors and paramedics reaching a stage of utter exhaustion due to heavy workloads caused by truncated staff strengths. At least 317 people, including doctors and paramedic staff, have tested positive for the coronavirus in just four hospitals in the past month.
80 Staff Members At Delhi Hospital Test Covid+ve In A Month, Doctor Dies 80 Staff Members At Delhi Hospital Test Covid+ve In A Month, Doctor Dies This comes at a time when the city hospitals are overwhelmed due to a surge in coronavirus cases and an increased patient count.
Dr AK Rawat, the surgeon who was vaccinated, died of Covid yesterday
New Delhi:
Around 80 medical personnel and a surgeon at Delhi s Saroj Super Speciality Hospital have tested positive for the coronavirus over the last month. Dr AK Rawat, the surgeon who was vaccinated, died of COVID-19 on Saturday. He was 58.
On a gloomy Saturday afternoon, the staff at the Saroj Super Specialty Hospital in Delhi broke down and started praying anxiously as lives of more 100 patients hung by a thread amid rapidly depleting oxygen supply. An oxygen tanker had reached the hospital after the staff spent hours running around in search of supplies and making frantic calls to the government and police. But it could not enter the area where the hospital s oxygen tank is. The problem: its larger-than-normal size. The solution: an excavator, which broke down a portion of a wall. The hospital ran out of oxygen in the afternoon and the supply from the vendor never came.