Prime Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said the center had increased Delhi's oxygen supply to treat coronavirus patients as the city faces an unprecedented shortage between the second wave of the disease.
Medical oxygen supplies in Delhi have been alarmingly low for the second day on Wednesday, with several of the city's top hospitals claiming to have only oxygen for a few more hours.
Amid the crisis, Delhi's Deputy Prime Minister Manis Sisodia had called on the Institute to increase the value of Capital assets, ANI reported. He said about 18,000 patients are currently admitted to city hospitals, and in need of critical care.
Father George, director of Holy Family Hospital, told NDTV that they have about 400 patients supported by oxygen, with enough supplies to keep them up until Wednesday evening. A similar situation existed at St Stephen’s Hospital, which had 500 patients and had only two hours of oxygen left.
Father George, director of Holy Family Hospital, told NDTV that they have about 400 patients supported by oxygen, with enough supplies to keep them up until Wednesday evening. A similar situation existed at St Stephen’s Hospital, which had 500 patients and had only two hours of oxygen left.
Delhi's health care infrastructure explodes at a juncture where the city reports thousands of new cases of coronavirus every day during the second wave of the coronavirus epidemic. This has led to a chronic shortage of oxygen supply, hospital beds and timely health care.
On Tuesday, too, hospitals warned that oxygen supplies were low enough, with government facilities reporting that they had enough oxygen to last another eight hours and some private ones only four or five hours.
After Prime Minister Arvind Kejriwal urged the Center to address the issue of severe oxygen shortages, and the Delhi High Court ordered the Center to take urgent action, some of the city's medical facilities were filled before dawn on Wednesday.
But in the evening, several hospitals in the city were running out of oxygen again.
At Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, authorities have warned that the goods are "dangerously low". "This will have serious consequences for our patients, especially for the more than 350 patients who rely on oxygen Covid-19," Apollo Director P Shivakumar told NDTV.
Max's Delhi Hospital has issued a statement saying it has only two hours left at Max Shalimar Bagh and three hours at Max Patparganj. The two hospitals between them have more than 500 Covid patients.
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