New Delhi: Several hospitals in the national capital reported a precipitous drop in their oxygen stocks on Sunday and sent out desperate messages of help on a day 12 Covid-19 patients died at the Batra Hospital here due to lack of the life-saving gas.
Delhi government-run GTB Hospital said it has stock till 8 pm while Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital maintained that their oxygen stock will last for four hours.
Sources at the Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital said their facility has put admissions on hold due to the depleting oxygen supplies.
The hospital has nearly 350 patients and all of them are on oxygen support.
Many Delhi hospitals grapple with oxygen shortage, court issues notice to state govt AAP MLA Raghav Chadha said a cryogenic tanker carrying two metric tonnes of Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) for Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital will reach the facility within minutes.
"Hate to say this - but oxygen suppliers have abdicated, and we are using every muscle we've got," he said on Twitter.
On Sunday, City Hospital also pressed the SOS button as it said it has oxygen left for two hours.
The hospital requires a minimum of 11,000 cubic metres of oxygen per day and has a consumption of 10,000 cubic metres on a daily basis.
Vimhans Hospital also requested the government on social media to supply oxygen as to the shortage of life-saving gas had only four hours.
Later, the issue was resolved after the hospital received an oxygen tanker. According to the Delhi Corona mobile application, the hospital has 94 patients in ICUs.
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Akash Health Care hospital too sent out an SOS message on Twitter about its dwindling oxygen. The hospital has 250 Covid patients.
Many Delhi hospitals grapple with oxygen shortage, court issues notice to state govt Irene Hospital in South Delhi was also in a crisis with its dwindling oxygen supply.
Hospitals across the national capital and its suburbs have been sending out desperate messages of help on social media and other platforms, flagging their dwindling stocks of oxygen.
Twenty people died at the Jaipur Golden Hospital last week amid a shortage of oxygen.
In view of the prevailing Oxygen shortage of Covid patients, the Delhi High Court on Sunday issued a notice to the Delhi Government on an application filed by the Centre seeking to recall yesterday's High Court order.
A Bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Justice Rekha Palli in an urgent hearing asked Delhi Government to respond to the Centre's application seeking to recall yesterday's High Court order.
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The HC on May 1 has asked Central Government to ensure that Delhi receives its allocated supply of 490 MT positively today, by whatever means and considering the fact that Delhi is not an industrial state, and does not have availability of cryogenic tankers of its own which could be requisitioned under the Disaster Management Act-like other States have done. It falls upon the Central Government to arrange the tankers as well so that the allocation made to Delhi could be fulfilled, lest it remains only a paper allocation.
The HC had also warned the Centre that it may consider initiating contempt proceedings in case of non-compliance.
