The administration at Shanti Mukund Hospital put up a notice at the entry gate, reading, We regret we are stopping admission in hospital because oxygen supply isnt coming.
Family members carry a COVID-19 patient to LNJP Hospital in New Delhi on Thursday. Pic/PTI
Several small hospitals in the city struggled to replenish oxygen supply for COVID-19 patients on Thursday morning, even as some big healthcare facilities received fresh stock overnight.
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Six hospitals in the city — Saroj Super Specialty Hospital, Shanti Mukund Hospital,Tirath Ram Shah Hospital, UK Nursing Home, Rathi Hospital and Santom Hospital — have run out of oxygen stock, NDTV quoted Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal as saying.
The administration at Shanti Mukund Hospital put up a notice at the entry gate, reading, “We regret we are stopping admission in hospital because oxygen supply isn’t coming.”
Officials at Saroj Hospital in Rohini said they have run out of oxygen supply. “The backup, too, won’t last long. Of the 120 patients in the hospital at present, 70 are in a critical condition,” an official said, adding that many lives will be lost if oxygen supply did not reach the hospital in time.
An official from Shanti Mukund Hospital told PTI they have not been able to get in touch with their oxygen supplier. “There are 110 coronavirus patients in the hospital right now. We have no option but to send patients to other hospitals,” he said.
The Delhi High Court directed the Centre on Thursday to ensure oxygen is supplied to the national capital as per the allocation order and is transported without any hindrance. The directions came after the Delhi government told the court that oxygen that was to come from Panipat in Haryana was not being allowed to be picked up by the local police there.
Earlier in the day, Kejriwal said his government is making efforts to airlift its enhanced quota of oxygen supply from Odisha. Amid the shortage across the national capital, the Delhi police averted a major crisis after it managed to restore oxygen supply to a hospital where over 350 COVID-19 patients are undergoing treatment, officials said on Thursday.
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