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New Delhi: The Delhi government didn’t account for the oxygen requirements of Covid patients in home isolation, and only took hospital beds into count, and thus got its entire quota calculation wrong amid the second wave, ThePrint has learnt.
Even the Union government did the same thing. A high-powered committee comprising AIIMS director Randeep Guleria, Niti Aayog member V.K. Paul and ICMR DG Balram Bhargava and the directorate general health services, formed to calculate the oxygen requirement for states/union territories, devised a formula on the basis of hospital beds alone.
This was one of the reasons why the central government’s policy for allocation of medical oxygen to states and union territories was Thursday labelled flawed by the Supreme Court, which called for it to be completely revamped.
May 10, 2021 at 2:16 pm IST
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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”.
UPDATED: May 10, 2021 21:12 IST
Covid patients share a bed at a Kanpur hospital; Photo by Maneesh Agnihotri
Last November, when Covid cases in Delhi peaked to over 8,500 daily, a majority of the patients requiring hospitalisation struggled to find beds. Even temporary additional facilities set up earlier in June failed to handle the extra load of patients. The four temporary facilities included a 10,000-bed centre in Chhatarpur, run by the ITBP, with at least 1,000 oxygen beds. Similar but smaller facilities had been set up in Dhaula Kuan and at the Commonwealth Games Village.
But, in February, when daily cases dropped to below 200, the Delhi government declared victory over Covid and the four additional facilities were dismantled. Two months on, as the second Covid wave struck, Delhi witnessed an unprecedented shortage of hospital beds. Average daily cases peaked to over 25,000 and the city was gripped by an acute shortage of medical oxygen. Two major hospitals the Rajiv Gandhi S
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Plea in HC challenges Delhi govt decision to use hospitals linked to hotels for COVID treatment of its officials ANI | Updated: May 09, 2021 11:24 IST
New Delhi [India], May 9 (ANI): A petition has been filed in the Delhi High Court challenging the Delhi government s notification directing four hospitals linked with hotels to be immediately reserved for the treatment of officers/officials of Delhi govt, autonomous bodies, corporations, local bodies and their family members amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The petition has been filed by orthopaedic surgeon Kaushal Kant Mishra through advocate Pooja Dhar.
Delhi s Department of Health and Family Welfare issued impugned order dated April 27 directing that four hospitals linked with hotels shall immediately be reserved for the treatment of officers/officials of Delhi government, autonomous bodies, corporations, local bodies and their family members.