Noida/Ghaziabad: The district administration of Gautam Budh Nagar has stopped all private hospitals that have run out of oxygen or have inadequate stock from admitting Covid patients. Most facilities have been grappling with dwindling oxygen stock for the past few days.
“The only difference between a bed at home and a bed at a hospital is that the hospital should be able to provide oxygen. When there is no oxygen, why should a hospital admit a patient? That is not treatment. So, we have stopped all private hospitals that have run out of oxygen from admitting patients. We are continuously expanding ICU facilities and have currently got 2,500 ICU beds. We can treat 3,000 Covid patients now,” district magistrate Suhas LY told TOI.
Natwar Gehlot (41) & Sunil Gehlot (43) died within eight hours of each other in a Noida Covid facility
GHAZIABAD/NOIDA: Hospitals in both cities have been complaining about acute shortage of oxygen supply for more than two days now, although the local administrations have claimed that the situation is under control.
On Wednesday afternoon, an official at a prominent hospital in Ghaziabad’s Indirapuram said they have oxygen for just six hours, and will have to start discharging Covid patients if the supply runs out. Few kilometers away in Noida’s Barola, two brothers admitted to a private Covid facility died within eight hours of each other earlier this week, even after their family members managed to arrange for oxygen cylinders on their own.
Natwar Gehlot (41) & Sunil Gehlot (43) died within eight hours of each other in a Noida Covid facility
GHAZIABAD/NOIDA: Hospitals in both cities have been complaining about acute shortage of oxygen supply for more than two days now, although the local administrations have claimed that the situation is under control.
On Wednesday afternoon, an official at a prominent hospital in Ghaziabad’s Indirapuram said they have oxygen for just six hours, and will have to start discharging Covid patients if the supply runs out. Few kilometers away in Noida’s Barola, two brothers admitted to a private Covid facility died within eight hours of each other earlier this week, even after their family members managed to arrange for oxygen cylinders on their own.