The Max Hospital-Saket on Friday morning sent out an SOS, saying it was left with an hours oxygen supply and over 700 patients admitted. Two hours later, in a tweet, it confirmed that it had received emergency supplies, which will last another two hours.
A patient undergoes treatment, in Kanpur on Friday. Pic/PTI
Some hospitals in Delhi continued to grapple with severe shortage of medical oxygen on Friday even after receiving emergency supplies.
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The Max Hospital-Saket on Friday morning sent out an SOS, saying it was left with “an hour’s oxygen supply” and over 700 patients admitted. Two hours later, in a tweet, it confirmed that it had received emergency supplies, which will “last another two hours”.
A Delhi Fire Service staff with a kin after his younger brother died due to COVID-19, at LNJP Hospital, in New Delhi on Friday. Pic/PTI
Twenty-five of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital’s “sickest” COVID-19 patients died in 24 hours and the lives of 60 more hung in precarious balance, officials said on Friday as the scramble for oxygen got more increasingly more frantic in hospitals across the national capital.
Sources said “low pressure oxygen” could be the likely cause of the deaths in Ganga Ram, one of the city’s biggest and most high-profile hospitals, where healthcare staff was reduced to manually ventilating patients in its ICU and emergency department. The hospital announced the deaths shortly after 8 am. “It is wrong to say the deaths occurred due to oxygen shortage. We provided oxygen to patients manually when the pressure dipped in the ICU,” SGRH Chairman Dr D S Rana said,
An oxygen tanker did reach Ganga Ram in central Delhi at 9.20 am but it was enough to last up to about five hours depending on consumption, an official at Ganga Ram said.
Indian Spinal Injuries Centre in Vasant Kunj, Batra Hospital and Holy Family hospital were among others sending out SOS. A senior official of the Batra Hospital said the oxygen situation at their facility is extremely poor, and had supply to last till 8 pm.
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