Attacks on Health Care Monthly News Brief - April 2021
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Burkina Faso
30 April 2021: In Dori city, Seno province, an ambulance transporting a patient was fired at by suspected ISWAP militants. No injuries were reported. Source:
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Burundi
05 April 2021: In Mwaro province, a nurse from the Tutsi ethnic group was attacked by members of the Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie - Forces pour la Défense de la Démocratie (CNDD-FDD), allegedly for refusing to join their political party. Source:
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Cameroon
07 April 2021: In Kumbo city, Bui department, Northwest region, suspected Ambazonian separatist fighters stormed and fired gunshots at the Saint Elizabeth Catholic General Hospital/Shisong Cardiac Centre, before abducting three nurses for allegedly allowing one of their members, who had been poisoned, to die. Source:
Delhi’s Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital gets oxygen plant
May 10, 2021
It can cater supplies up to 115 beds.
The Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital at Hari Nagar, New Delhi, has acquired a captive PSA Oxygen plant, ensuring a dedicated oxygen supply to up to 115 beds. PSA Oxygen generator manufacturer MVS Engineering has installed the plant at record speed to help address the oxygen crisis in the capital, the latter said Monday in a press release.
The plant has a capacity of 35 NM3 per hour, equivalent to 5 jumbo cylinders per hour. It will contribute to the uninterrupted oxygen supply at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital, one of Delhi’s crucial Covid care centres. It has been manufactured and installed at an investment of ₹91.84 lakh, mobilised by the Bansuri Charitable Society with support of a group of donor organisations including Democracy People Foundation, Martin & Harris Laboratories Ltd, Advance Valves Pvt Ltd, Members of the Rotary Club Delhi Premier, Fancy Fashions Pvt Ltd an
Delhi HC asks Centre, Delhi govt to file status report on seized medicine, equipment
May 10, 2021
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Issues notices to the Centre and Delhi government, asks for status report on seizure of hoarded material The Delhi High Court Monday asked the Centre and Delhi government to prevent black marketing and hoarding of medicines and medical equipment, including oxygen concentrators.
It also directed the Delhi government to file a status report on seizure of hoarded equipment and medicines and orders passed by the SDMs for release of the same.
A bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli was hearing a PIL seeking directions to declare medicines and medical equipment meant for Covid treatment as essential commodities under the Essential Commodities Act. It said if something has to be done, “do it without waiting for orders from the court”.
12,651 fresh cases take city’s tally to 13,36,218
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319 deaths reported; positivity rate falls below 20%
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319 deaths reported; positivity rate falls below 20%
Delhi reported 319 COVID-19-related deaths in a period of 24 hours, taking the total number of deaths to 19,663, according to a health bulletin released by the Delhi government on Monday. Also, 12,651 new cases were reported, pushing the total cases to 13,36,218.
A total of 66,234 tests were done in a day, the bulletin said. The test positivity rate was 19.10%. This means that about 19 out of 100 people taking the test are now positive. There was a sharp rise in positivity from 3.5% on April 1 to 36.2% on April 22. But since then, it has stayed below it. A decrease in positivity is a good sign, as per experts. Of the total cases, 12,31,297 people have recovered and there are 85,258 active cases.
NEW DELHI: Gangster and politician Mohammad Shahabuddin, who once ruled Siwan with criminal impunity, died of a Covid-19 infection on Saturday while serving a life term in Delhi’s Tihar jail for a double murder. He was 53. The former MP had been lodged in high-security jail number 2 at the Tihar Jail Complex in a murder case. The Delhi prison administration said Shahabuddin had been admitted to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital on April 20 after he showed symptoms of Covid, and was shifted to the ICU three days ago.
Director-general (prisons) Sandeep Goel said they received information from the hospital that Shahabuddin had died during treatment. Shahabuddin had been the terror of Siwan for many years. An RJD MP four times and twice an MLA, political patronage was said to have allowed him to cultivate his infamy for illegal profit.