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After high court pulls up center, some top Delhi hospitals get oxygen

HealthAfter high court pulls up center, some top Delhi hospitals get oxygen

Some top Delhi hospitals, including Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan Hospital, Sir Ganga Ram and GTB Hospital, among others, get oxygen supply after the Delhi High Court pulls up the Central Government for inaction.  Fresh oxygen tankers arrived late on Tuesday at Sir Ganga Ram and GTB Hospital, which were just about to run out of oxygen stock, as shared by NDTV

There was an alarming oxygen shortage in Delhi hospitals and the Delhi High Court questioned the Central Government on its inaction.   Appeals by politicians, including Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, failed to make much headway until the Delhi High Court’s intervention.

After this, some of New Delhi’s biggest medical hospitals received a late-night refill yesterday, and just in time as their oxygen supplies were running out. Delhi’s biggest COVID-19 facility, the Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan Hospital, received 10 tonnes of supplies last night. The hospital administration said these stocks were a good amount to manage with for some time.

Oxygen tankers arrived late on Tuesday night, including Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) Hospital. Gangaram Hospital received 14,000 cubic metres of oxygen in two separate late night/early morning consignments, enough to hold them for a day or two, chairman DS Rana said.

“4,500 cubic metres were supplied by a private vendor. 6,000 cubic metres by Inox. The total requirement at present is 11,000 cubic metres. The supply should last 24 hours till 9 am tomorrow. Indian Oxygen and Inox have promised to refill the tanks during the day,” Dr Rana told NDTV.

One consignment came from their regular supplier, Inox, and the other, from a private vendor organised by the Delhi government. Similarly, the government-run GTB Hospital, too, received supplies last night.

Officials at Max Hospital in east Delhi’s Patparganj, however, said that one consignment from Inox, which was expected at 2 am, arrived late at 8 this morning and the 6-hour gap was “nightmarish.” Even this consignment is not enough to last beyond the afternoon, they said. Of the 300 patients in the hospital, 200 are on oxygen support, officials there said.

Another facility that received oxygen supplies last night was the state-run Deen Dayal Upadhyay hospital.

Several desperate public calls made by leaders and administrators finally led to some response as more light was thrown on the frightening conditions of lack of oxygen.

The Prime Minister and the Central Government have been blamed for inaction leading to the terrible condition of lack of oxygen in hospitals.

The Congress party said:  “It took the Modi govt 8 months – after realising the importance of oxygen in the fight against COVID – to invite bids for oxygen generation plants in district hospitals. That is how seriously they take your life.”

Also Read: High Court questions Center’s distribution policy on oxygen and vaccines

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said: India produces 7500 MT of O2 per day, we are one of the biggest producers in the world. O2 shortage is due to lack of logistics to transport it. Govt has failed us. Why did it not make arrangements when a second wave was inevitable? There was time. It’s still not too late..1/2

Former President of Congress and top leader Rahul Gandhi wrote on Twitter

India is gasping for #Oxygen.

Thanks to GOI’s incompetency & complacency.

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