NEW DELHI: As EU announced a 2.2 million euro assistance package for India on Wednesday, government sources said the aid arriving in India were being distributed to hospitals around the country.
On Wednesday the new charge’d’affaires at the US Embassy, Dan Smith tweeted, “The US-India partnership involves all aspects of the relationship: government, business and people. This week vaccine components arrived in India from the US that will enable the manufacturing of 20 million doses of Covishield vaccine.”
Twenty oxygen concentrators from Russia have been given to Lady Hardinge Medical College in Delhi. One large oxygen generating plant given by Italy has been sent to the ITBP hospital in Noida.
Feeling helpless, Delhi s hospitals start generating their own oxygen to tide over shortage
Feeling helpless, Delhi s hospitals start generating their own oxygen to tide over shortage
After having to send out SOS messages to save the lives of Covid patients, private hospitals in Delhi are now installing their own oxygen plants to reduce dependence on suppliers amid the ongoing crisis.
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Medical oxygen generation plant at a private hospital in Delhi (Photo Credits: Aishwarya Paliwal)
Delhi witnessed 448 Covid deaths in the last 24 hours, as per the official figures. This means that 18 people die in the national capital each hour. Hospitals, which are already grappling with the shortage of medical oxygen, have been overwhelmed.
The 200-bed Narayana Super Specialty Hospital in east Delhi has 62 Covid-19 patients at present, of which 18 are on ventilator support
NEW DELHI: Covid-19 management in Delhi and NCR has been seriously hampered by the unavailability of medical oxygen. Like other hospitals, Narayana Super Specialty Hospital in East Delhi was also battling the crisis.
But then suddenly, last week, they received an email from the French embassy offering to donate an oxygen generator. The mail said they wanted to send one to Narayana Healthcare the private hospital chain that runs the hospital for their Bangalore facility. But, the hospital says, it wrote back to them requesting that the generator be sent to the Delhi facility as the oxygen crisis was claiming lives there.
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