Arushi Chaddha s father was dying. The oxygen supply of the hospital, like in hospitals across Delhi, was running on fumes. Most people knew, or knew of someone who had died. Her only hope was the kindness of strangers.
On April 23, at 11.30 am, Chaddha posted on Instagram: Lungs damaged. Oxygen level dropped to 70. Hospital is refusing to keep my father for more than a couple of hours due to the shortage of medical oxygen. My father will die.
In a short while, her DM was inundated with messages offering leads. One such message was from Suhail Shetty, who took down Chaddha s details and made several phone calls to his friends and relatives to get an oxygen concentrator. On April 25, at 2.20 am, he managed to arrange one.
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An oxygen tanker arrives at Delhi’s Batra hospital on May 1, 2021. As many as 12 COVID-19 patients died in the hospital earlier in the day due to lack of oxygen.
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The major news headlines of the day, and more. With the death of the 12 patients in the south Delhi hospital which announced at 12.30 p.m. that it had run out of oxygen the number of hospital patients who have lost their lives in the deepening crisis in the last eight days has gone up to 57.
He tested positive on April 20 and was undergoing treatment in hospital
Former Rashtriya Janata Dal MP Mohammad Shahabuddin, who was lodged in Tihar jail, died of COVID-19 at a city hospital on Saturday.
Director General (Prisons) Sandeep Goel confirmed the development.
Prison officials said gangster-turned-politician Shahabuddin, who was serving serving life imprisonment in Tihar, tested positive on April 20 and was admitted to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital, where he died during treatment.
When his condition deteriorated two days ago, he was put on ventilator at the hospital.
Mr. Goel told news agency
PTI “information has been received from Deen Dayal Upadhyaya hospital in Delhi about the death of Mohd Shahabuddin. He was suffering from COVID-19 and was admitted in DDU on April 20”.
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