Oxygen shortage: Gandhinagar Civil Hospital halts admissions

AHMEDABAD: More than 15 ambulances queued up outside the GMERS Medical College and Hospital in Gandhinagar on Thursday as the hospital was refusing to take new patients. Hospital authorities said they have reached their capacity.
Dr Niyati Lakhani, medical superintendent of Gandhinagar Civil Hospital, said the decision to not admit new Covid patients was to ensure that existing patients don’t face any issues. “We stock for the patients admitted. We will admit new patients as we can sustain them on oxygen,” she said.
Sources privy to the development said the hospital has 400 beds for Covid-19 patients of which 320 are for patients with high requirements of oxygen, and all the beds are full.
Rumours were rife that Sola Civil Hospital had also stopped admitting patients for lack of oxygen. Dr Pina Soni, medical superintendent, said there was no lack of oxygen at the hospital.