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Bengaluru hospitals face oxygen shortage, send SOS


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BENGALURU: A day after three hospitals were on the verge of running out of oxygen and 24 Covid patients died without oxygen at Chamarajanagar District Hospital, Rajmahal Vilas Hospital in Sanjayanagar, Bengaluru wrote to the BBMP seeking an immediate supply of oxygen. “Universal Air Products is our vendor and despite our repeated request, has not supplied liquid oxygen and we are personally going to the factory to get bulk type and B type cylinder filled up. Even this is taking a couple of days to get delivery. In this scenario, managing 30-plus Covid patients (both BBMP and private) is becoming a challenge,” the hospital said in a letter to Dr Vedavathy, BBMP East Zone official. ....

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Oxygen shortage: Two patients die in Yelahanka hospital


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May 05, 2021 10:36 IST
Authorities say both patients had come in a critical condition and families had been informed about oxygen shortage
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People wait outside a oxygen production unit at Peenya Industrial Area in Bengaluru on Tuesday. K. MURALI KUMAR
 
Authorities say both patients had come in a critical condition and families had been informed about oxygen shortage
Two patients, including a 38-year-old mother of two children, died in the wee hours of Tuesday at Arka hospital in Yelahanka, allegedly due to non-availability of oxygen. Hospital authorities said both patients had come in a critical condition and the families had been informed about the oxygen shortage. ....

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Where do Bengaluru hospitals get their oxygen supply from?


Where do Bengaluru hospitals get their oxygen supply from?
Where do Bengaluru hospitals get their oxygen supply from?
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Bengaluru hospitals have been frantically trying to procure oxygen over the past few weeks. Representational image: UNICEF Ethiopia/Mersha (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
In the last two weeks, Bengaluru hospitals have seen horrifying cases of COVID deaths due to the lack of oxygen supply. One such case was that of 35-year-old Subramanya. The first hospital Subramanya was admitted to was running out of oxygen, and for a long time, he was unable to find an ICU bed in another hospital. He was eventually admitted to Prashanth Hospital near Bommanahalli, but his oxygen saturation level had deteriorated so much that he couldn’t be saved. ....

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