Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday said that Oxygen Express with six containers of medical oxygen has arrived in the Karnataka capital from Jharkhand to provide relief. In a tweet, Goyal said, In order to provide relief to Covid-19 patients, Oxygen Express from Tatanagar has reached Bengaluru via Green corridor, with six containers of medical Oxygen. He also attached a video of the Oxygen Express entering the Bengaluru station with 120 MT of Oxygen.
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TN seeks 20,000 Remdesivir vials every day for Covid treatment
May 10, 2021
Chief Minister MK Stalin speaks to Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal over phone
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Monday sought 20,000 Remdesivir vials every day for the State to meet the needs of both government and private hospitals.
Speaking to Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal over telephone, Stalin said that the State has over 1.45 lakh Covid-19 patients. The Centre has so far provided 2.5 lakh vials or 7,000 per day to Tamil Nadu. This is not sufficient for the State, and needs to be increased, he urged Goyal.
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May 10, 2021
3 Oxygen Express Trains Arrived In Delhi NCR Today, Says Piyush Goyal The Oxygen Express trains arrived a day after the Delhi High Court expressed its fury over the Centre s failure to ensure the city gets oxygen.
Updated: May 05, 2021 8:26 am IST
At least 40 patients have died in Delhi alone in recent days due to a lack of oxygen.
New Delhi:
At least three Oxygen Express trains have arrived today in the National Capital Territory with the vital gas, bringing relief for COVID-19 patients gasping for breath across hospitals, Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal has said. The trains arrived a day after the Delhi High Court expressed its fury over the Central government s failure to implement its order of ensuring that the city gets it quota of oxygen.
Apr 24, 2021, 11:15 AM IST
New Delhi: Batra Hospital and Medical Research Centre on Saturday (April 24), after requesting assistance from the state government, received only 500 litres of medical oxygen.
Considering the hospital has around 260 patients, this supply will not last more than one and a half hours.
Dr SCL Gupta, MD said that they sent an SOS to the national capital government asking for emergency medical oxygen supply in the morning.
“We have received only 500-litre of oxygen after pleading for 12 hours. Our daily requirement is 8000 litres. We ve 350 patients in the hospital. The treatment of choice in COVID is oxygen but when we don t get it what will happen?” he told news agency ANI.