10 days after order on O2 beds, Ggn fails to add any

Gurgaon: On April 26, chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar had outlined a plan to add around 900 oxygen beds for Covid patients in the city.
These hospitals were to come up in vacant flats of an M3M condominium in Sector 67 condominium (400 beds) in collaboration with Medanta, at the HSVP auditorium in Sector 43 (100 beds) and SGT hospital (400 beds).
In the ten days between then and Thursday, the city has averaged in excess of 3,000 new infections every day. But so far, none of those 900 beds has been activated for patients at a time when Covid beds in the city are full and people are travelling to other districts or even states for treatment.
The main challenge, officials say, is medical oxygen. Adding oxygen beds will drive up demand and almost inevitably lead to a flurry of SOS calls from various hospitals. The oxygen supply lines have relatively stabilised this week after a tense fortnight for hospitals and the Gurgaon administration that saw a daily scramble to deliver oxygen to hospitals on time. At two private hospitals — Kriti and Kathuria — 10 patients died, allegedly after the facilities ran out of oxygen.
The other reason officials cite is an inadequate number of skilled professionals like nurses, ICU specialists and medical officers. The number of active Covid-19 cases in the city is now around 40,000 and the list of people waiting to get a hospital bed is getting longer.