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Obstructing oxygen tankers amounts to endangering human lives, says Delhi HC
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Last Updated: Apr 26, 2021, 08:33 PM IST
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The court was hearing various petitions by Maharaja Agrasen Hospital, Jaipur Golden Hospital, Batra Hospital, Shanti Mukund Hospital and Saroj Super Speciality Hospital here among others over shortage of oxygen for treating seriously-ill COVID patients.
A fresh plea has been seeking direction to control black marketing of COVID-19 medicines and to ensure their availability and procurement in a time bound and transparent manner. The high court said it will hear it on Tuesday.
Obstructing cryogenic tankers carrying medical oxygen for COVID-19 patients will tantamount to endangering human lives, the Delhi High Court said on Monday, pointing out that the Rajasthan government must honour the orders not to cause any hindrance in transportation of the gas to other states. Acting tough on black marketing in oxygen cylinders, reportedly being sol
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“Oxygen Express” trains are re-routing supplies across India to meet a severe shortage of medical-grade oxygen, as the country’s new coronavirus cases hit a record peak for the fifth day in a row.
At Dr Zakir Hussain Hospital in Maharashtra, 24 people with covid-19 died due to disruptions in oxygen supply on 21 April. Many such deaths continue to be reported across the country.
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“So many people, including my grandmother, died before my eyes,” says Vicky Jadhav, whose grandmother was at the hospital in Maharashtra. “I tried to revive her after borrowing an oxygen cylinder from a dead patient. But she did not live. I tried to do that for other patients too, but none of them survived. Many of those dead were young.”
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New Delhi Last week, when 54-year-old Suruchi Singh s coronavirus infection took a turn for the worst and she was struggling to breathe, her family scrambled to get her into a hospital, but there were no beds available. Singh s daughter panicked.
She reached out online to Gayatri Manchanda, an artist who d recently started helping people get information on where to find vital medical resources. I must have made about 60 calls to different hospitals that night, but no beds were available, Manchanda told CBS News. But she and the other volunteers in her rapidly-evolving network didn t give up. They posted SOS messages on Twitter and continued calling hospitals through the night, until at last there was a breakthrough.
Asking people not to panic over the availability of medical oxygen, the Centre on Monday asserted that the country has enough stock of the life-saving gas and that the key issue of its transportation to high-demand areas witnessing mounting COVID-19 cases was being addressed in the best possible way, even by roping in the Indian Air Force (IAF). Addressing a media briefing here, Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs Piyush Goyal highlighted the efforts that have been undertaken by the government in providing oxygen to hospitals in areas with high COVID-19 cases at the earliest. Ghabrayen nahin, panic mat karen (Don t worry, don t panic). We have enough stock of oxygen. The issue is transportation. Transportation is a major challenge which we are trying to resolve by active involvement of all stakeholders, he said.