Covid-19: High Court asks Centre to reply to Delhi govt s request for Army help India Today Web Desk
The Delhi High Court on Monday asked the Centre to submit its reply to the Delhi government s request for assistance of the Army to handle the Covid-19 situation in the national capital.
A petition was filed in the Delhi High Court seeking directions for handing over the management of oxygen in the national capital to the Army to ensure uninterrupted supply to Covid-19 hospitals and facilities. The issue of oxygen supply and distribution needs to be handed over to the Armed forces. Nobody else is able to handle it. It is just not happening, an advocate told the Delhi High Court.
Delhi gets 1st oxygen plant at Commonwealth Games village s Covid care centre
Oxygen equipment has been brought from abroad by association Doctors for You. Delhi, like many other cities, has been grappling with shortage of oxygen and insufficient beds as Covid-19 cases continue to rise at an unprecedented pace
BusinessToday.In | May 3, 2021 | Updated 11:19 IST
Some hospitals in Delhi on Sunday even sent an SOS call to authorities about their dwindling oxygen stocks
Reeling under a huge shortage of medical oxygen, the national capital of Delhi has got its first Covid care centre with its own oxygen plant at the Commonwealth Games village. The oxygen plant has a capacity to produce about 1,500 litres of oxygen. All beds at the Covid care centre have a direct connectivity with the plant, which makes it easier to supply oxygen to patients.
New Delhi, India – On Saturday afternoon, 12 coronavirus patients died at New Delhi’s Batra Hospital after it ran out of medical oxygen. Among the dead was Dr RK Himthani, head of the gastroenterology unit at the same hospital.
The private hospital in southern Delhi was among several in the Indian capital and across India to sound an alarm over a crippling oxygen shortage as they struggle to cope with patients pouring in, needing ventilators and ICU beds.
For the past week, Batra Hospital’s administration said they had been facing the same shortage, but oxygen arrived minutes before running out. On Saturday they ran out of luck.
Ensure Delhi s oxygen supply issue is rectified by midnight: Supreme Court to Centre
Ensure Delhi s oxygen supply issue is rectified by midnight: Supreme Court to Centre
The Centre has raised Delhi s daily quota of oxygen to 590 metric tonnes from 490 MT. However, the Delhi government has been demanding 976 metric tonnes of oxygen
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UPDATED: May 3, 2021 11:16 IST
Family members of Covid-19 patients wait to fill their cylinders with medical oxygen in Delhi (Source: PTI)
As hospitals in Delhi continue to grapple with oxygen shortage due to a rise in Covid-19 cases,
the Supreme Court directed the Centre to ensure that the deficit in the supply of oxygen to the national capital was rectified before May 3 midnight.
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