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Coronavirus News LIVE Updates: 'Daily Fire-Fight' to Save Lives of Covid Patients, Say Delhi Hospitals Amid Struggle for Oxygen Supply
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- Furnish an Action Plan to Address the State's Shortage of Beds, Medicines, Cylinders, Says Anil Baijal
- It Has Become 'Daily Fire-fight', Say Delhi Hospitals While Battling Oxygen Shortage
Coronavirus News LIVE Updates: Some hospitals in Delhi have said it has become a “daily fire-fight” for them to save lives of Covid-19 patients in the absence of continuous supply of medical oxygen, with one healthcare facility even “crying out” to the government to shift out its patients. The current wave of the coronavirus has put huge pressure on the city’s health system, with hospitals facing shortage of oxygen and equipment to treat COVID-19 patients besides beds. As many healthcare facilities continue to face crises, Lt Governor Anil Baijal directed top officers of the Delhi government to prepare a detailed action plan to address the shortage of the life-saving gas. The national capital reported 407 COVID-19 fatalities and 20,394 cases with a positivity rate of 28.33 per cent on Sunday, according to a bulletin issued by the Delhi health department.
This was the second consecutive day the Capital recorded over 400 fatalities due to the deadly virus. Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba at a meeting on expressed anguish over issues related to availability of oxygen in the national capital and emphasised the need to ramp up the city’s medical infrastructure. He has asked the Delhi government to make all out efforts to lift their allocated oxygen, using all the means at their disposal, and also to ensure that the oxygen available to them is distributed rationally and in a transparent manner, so that there is no diversion or leakage, according to a statement said. On Sunday afternoon, the second ‘Oxygen Express’ for Delhi arrived here on with 120 tonnes of liquid medical oxygen and a third such train has begun its journey for the national capital from Angul in Odisha, the railway ministry said.
The train from Angul is carrying 30.86 tonnes of oxygen, it said. However, during the day, some hospitals sent out desperate SOS calls to authorities to replenish their dwindling stocks.
DRDO handed over 50 oxygen cylinders to Gandhi Hospital, Secunderabad, Telangana in presence of Union Minister Kishan Reddy yesterday. These cylinders are of 46.7 liters water capacity each & can be pressurized up to 150 bars: Defence PRO, Hyderabad
We got to know that non-COVID hospitals are using more oxygen cylinders despite having fewer patients in their hospitals. We've seized empty oxygen cylinders from a private hospital & issued a notice seeking explanation: Ramji Mishra, City Magistrate, Rampur pic.twitter.com/smQ91Tc7u8
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) May 2, 2021
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— ANI (@ANI) May 2, 2021
“We asked them to not gather at a spot as it might spread the #COVID19 infection. They vandalised our vehicle and attacked us,” ASI Mohapatra pic.twitter.com/IAxi5w7Mr4
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Meanwhile, the Indian Air Force is airlifting cryogenic oxygen containers to help the country tide over the oxygen crisis.
Indian Air Force C-17s are airlifting 4 cryogenic oxygen containers from Frankfurt in Germany to Hindon airbase in Delhi and 450 oxygen cylinders from Brize Norton in the UK to the Chennai airbase in Tamil Nadu: Indian Air Force pic.twitter.com/BCcAL3SPmI
— ANI (@ANI) May 2, 2021
Furnish an Action Plan to Address the State's Shortage of Beds, Medicines, Cylinders, Says Anil Baijal | Lt Governor Anil Baijal on Sunday asked departments concerned to furnish an action plan to address the shortage of hospital beds, medicines, medical oxygen as well as increasing the capacity of crematoriums and graveyards amid a surge in Covid cases in Delhi. The LG has also suggested employing services of recently retired doctors and paramedical services to plug the gaps in the city’s health infrastructure.
Several hospitals in Delhi continue to grapple with an oxygen crisis, as Covid cases continue to spike every passing day
On Saturday, 12 Covid-19 patients, including a senior doctor, died at south Delhi’s Batra Hospital after the facility ran out of medical oxygen for around 80 minutes in the afternoon. The tragic incident occurred in less than two weeks of 20 coronavirus patients dying at Jaipur Golden Hospital and 25 at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital amid the oxygen crisis in the national capital.
It Has Become 'Daily Fire-fight', Say Delhi Hospitals While Battling Oxygen Shortage | Oxygen crisis in Delhi hospitals continue as some hospitals in Delhi on Sunday sent out desperate SOS calls to authorities to replenish their dwindling stocks, with one healthcare facility even requesting the government to shift out its patients.
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A Covid-19 patient receives oxygen in Delhi.
