Delhi hospitals short of breath amid rising demand for oxygen
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Several hospitals raise alarm, say their supplies will last only a few hours
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Several hospitals raise alarm, say their supplies will last only a few hours
Tension regarding supply of oxygen continued in the Capital on Sunday with several hospitals raising alarm that they had supply to last only for a few more hours.
The Delhi government scrambled to rush reserve supplies to ensure that no more deaths occurred in the Capital due to lack of oxygen. While hospitals like Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, which had made frantic requests late on Saturday, received oxygen in the wee hours, Lok Nayak Hospital received supply within hours of raising an alarm on Sunday morning.
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For a fourth day in a row, India has set an unwelcome world record for the number of new coronavirus infections: a further 349,691 cases in the 24 hours to Sunday morning, with another 2,767 lives lost. The capital, Delhi, is one of the worst-hit areas. The BBC s Vikas Pandey reports from a city whose hospitals are overwhelmed and whose citizens are in desperation.
When Ashwin Mittal s grandmother s oxygen saturation level dropped a week ago, he started frantically looking for a hospital bed in Delhi. He called everybody he could, but every hospital refused.
Her condition deteriorated further on Thursday and he took her to the emergency rooms of several hospitals, but every place was full. They accepted the fate that she was going to die without getting any treatment. But she was gasping for every breath and Ashwin just couldn t bear it after a while.
India braced for 500,000 infections a day: Experts warn crisis may not peak for two weeks after nation suffered 350,000 new cases today as hospitals turn away patients after running out of oxygen
India recorded another 349,691 infections and 2,767 deaths, but the figures are believed to be even higher
The US has offered to send assistance as India struggles to contain the surging second wave of the virus
Dr Shahid Jameel has warned it still yet to hit the peak of its second Covid wave despite landmark cases
He said that models suggest there could be 500,000 infections per day at the end of the first week of May
Tears, prayers, police, JCB: How Saroj Hospital in Delhi saved over 100 lives
The nurses, paramedics and others at the private hospital had spent hours running around in search of supplies and making frantic calls to the government and police, but to no avail.
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NEW DELHI: At the Saroj Super Specialty Hospital in Delhi, distraught staff broke down and started praying anxiously as the lives of over 100 patients hung by a thread with oxygen supply rapidly depleting.
The nurses, paramedics and others at the private hospital had spent hours running around in search of supplies and making frantic calls to the government and police, but to no avail.
COVID-19: India records 349,691 new infections in another daily global record India has set a new global record for daily coronavirus infections - for the fourth day in a row.
Its health ministry reported 349,691 cases on Sunday, bringing the total to 16.96 million, second only to the US.
India first surpassed the
just under 315,000 new cases.
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The number of
coronavirus-related deaths in the latest 24-hour period is 2,767 - India s highest number so far. Total fatalities have now reached 192,311.
In the capital, New Delhi, one person is said to be dying of