Five Kashmir Oxygen Plants Taken To Jammu, Hindustan Times
Hindustan Times reported in a sensational report.
A medical oxygen plant being thrown open in a Jammu hospital. Pic: DIPR
Kashmir and Jammu divisions were allotted Rs 125 crore each to acquire 37 pressure swing adsorption (PSA) oxygen units for each division by March 31. Kashmir was able to acquire some of the units amid the surging coronavirus cases, while the supply order in Jammu got delayed till May 7 owing to the failure of the commencement of the contract with their supplier.
The newspaper quoted an official saying: “Of the 37 oxygen plants required for Kashmir, we have so far acquired 20 units, but could only install 17 here as three were installed in Jammu.”
Kashmir Authorities Restrain Medical Staff From Talking to Media Even as Covid Cases Surge
The district administration in Srinagar has also barred manufacturers from supplying medical oxygen to private societies and NGOs, at a time when calls for oxygen supplies have shot up.
Workers refilling medical oxygen for supply to various government hospitals for COVID-19 patients, in Jammu. Photo: PTI
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Srinagar: The authorities in Kashmir have issued directions to the health services department to desist from speaking with journalists even as its healthcare system shows signs of buckling under the weight of increasing caseload of new COVID-19 infections.
SRINAGAR: On 20
th April my online editor, Tahir Bhat tested positive for COVID 19. I along with six other staffers of
Kashmir Life went into self-quarantine following contact with him.
Two days after the incident, when heavy rain lashed Srinagar, I went to Upper Primary Health Centre Batamaloo. I was of the opinion that it will take me few minutes to get tested for the novel Coronavirus but my perceptions turned topsy-turvy as it took me three hours to get tested.
While waiting in the long queue I got drenched in rain. Amid pushes and pulls, I tried to save my eyes from the sticks of the umbrella I was carrying.
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April 29, 2021 00:34 IST
Official sources said a quota of only 10,500 vials per week had been fixed for Jammu and Kashmir by the Centre in its first allotment and distribution phase
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Beds lie inside an indoor stadium converted into COVID-19 treatment center for emergencies in the wake of the spike in the numbers of positive coronavirus cases in Srinagar, Wednesday, April 28, 2021.
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Official sources said a quota of only 10,500 vials per week had been fixed for Jammu and Kashmir by the Centre in its first allotment and distribution phase
Scores of SOS calls flooded online social media platforms on Wednesday asking for Remdesivir and Tocilizumab, administered to COVID-19 patients, as stocks of these medicines ran out in the Kashmir valley’s main hospitals, at the forefront of the battle against the coronavirus.