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"We are supposed to give life. If we cannot give even oxygen, our patients will die," said Sunil Kumar Saggar, CEO of Shanti Mukand Hospital in Karkardooma, in a choked voice around 2.43pm on Thursday with his hospital left with just two hours of oxygen. He was anxious about the 110 Covid patients in their care. The crisis had started brewing at this 200-bed hospital around 3am. Out of the 110 Covid patients, 12 were on ventilator with one consuming 18 litres of oxygen per minute. Saggar, along with a couple of doctors, reviewed the situation and hoped to survive for some more hours, relying...

"We are supposed to give life. If we cannot give even oxygen, our patients will die," said Sunil Kumar Saggar, CEO of Shanti Mukand Hospital in Karkardooma, in a choked voice around 2.43pm on Thursday with his hospital left with just two hours of oxygen. He was anxious about the 110 Covid patients in their care. The crisis had started brewing at this 200-bed hospital around 3am. Out of the 110 Covid patients, 12 were on ventilator with one consuming 18 litres of oxygen per minute. Saggar, along with a couple of doctors, reviewed the situation and hoped to survive for some more hours, relying...

Coronavirus | Centre steps in to restore oxygen supplies to Delhi Updated: Updated: ‘24/7 control team will mediate disputes between States’ Share Article AAA A relative of a COVID-19 patient carries an oxygen cylinder for refilling in New Delhi on April 21, 2021.   | Photo Credit: PTI ‘24/7 control team will mediate disputes between States’ Oxygen stocks at several hospitals in the national capital dipped to alarming lows following disruption of supplies from Haryana on Wednesday. Supplies were restored by late evening after intervention from the Centre. Union Health Secretary Raje...

April 16, 2021 With a massive second wave of Covid-19 sweeping through India, one in five infections in the world is currently being reported from the country. How is India’s second wave different from the first? To start with, the second wave is spreading much, much faster than the first, as visible in this graphic. Our world in data India’s second Covid-19 wave is stronger than the first. Many experts believe the surge is partly fuelled by new strains of the coronavirus, including a more infectious homegrown variant found in 61% of samples genome sequenced in Maharashtra, the worst hi...

How is India’s second wave of Covid-19 different from the first? How is India’s second wave of Covid-19 different from the first? The infections are spreading faster but whether the disease is more severe among the young is hard to say in the absence of data. 2 hours ago A patient with a breathing problem wears an oxygen mask as she lies inside an ambulance waiting in a queue to enter a Covid-19 hospital in Ahmedabad, India, April 14, 2021. | Reuters/Amit Dave With a massive second wave of Covid-19 sweeping through India, one in five infections in the world is cu...