12 COVID Patients, Including Their Own Doctor, Die In Delhi Hospital After Oxygen Shortage
According to the hospital, five more COVID-19 patients are critical and they are trying to revive them. Batra Hospital in Delhi on Saturday told the Delhi High Court that it was out of oxygen supply for over an hour, which resulted in the deaths of 12 Covid-19 patients, including a doctor.
After a brief lull, the oxygen shortage horror is hitting Delhi hospitals once again.
On Saturday, twelve COVID-19 patients, including the HOD of the gastroenterology department, of Batra Hospital in Delhi died due to oxygen shortage.
Four patients have died at Batra Hospital in Jammu due to oxygen shortage. The attendants allege the hopsital is over charging & stopped the oxygen supply by saying 'Jo karna hai karo'. This is sad & shameful! pic.twitter.com/u6wIlbzkIT
¡ª Salman Nizami (@SalmanNizami_) May 1, 2021
According to the hospital, five more COVID-19 patients are critical and they are trying to revive them.
Four more patients die due to oxygen shortage at Batra Hospital, death toll mounts to 12: Official (PTI)
¡ª The Times Of India (@timesofindia) May 1, 2021
Batra Hospital in Delhi on Saturday told the Delhi High Court that it was out of oxygen supply for over an hour, which resulted in the deaths of 8 Covid-19 patients, including a doctor.
BCCL
Batra Hospital on Saturday told the high court that they didn¡¯t get oxygen on time.
'Ran out of oxygen at 12 noon'
"We ran out of oxygen at 12 noon. We got oxygen at 1:35 pm. We have lost lives, including one of our own doctors."
The hospital has said in a statement that 8 patients died on Saturday due to lack of oxygen, including one doctor. "We ran our operation for almost an hour without oxygen supply," said Dr. SCL Gupta, Medical Director of Batra Hospital.
8 dead at Batra hospital after oxygen supply reaches late. 6 of them were on ICU on high flow Oxygen. Among those who died is a doctor of the hospital from the gastro Dept. Dr. SCL Gupta, Medical Director, Batra speaking about the incident ??@TOIDelhi pic.twitter.com/GqFJpaY0bl
¡ª Sakshi Chand (@sakshichand8TOI) May 1, 2021
SOS Call
Earlier, Batra Hospital had sent an SOS message, saying, "Oxygen will last for another 10 minutes. 326 patients are admitted at this hospital."
Meanwhile, AAP leader Raghav Chadha said: "Our SOS cryogenic tanker carrying Liquid Medical Oxygen is reaching Batra Hospital within five minutes. Their regular supplier of oxygen has defaulted yet again due to alleged 'lack of oxygen supplies' and is being pulled up."
Our SOS cryogenic tanker carrying Liquid Medical Oxygen is reaching Batra Hospital within 5 minutes. Their regular supplier of oxygen has defaulted yet again due to alleged 'lack of oxygen supplies' and is being pulled up. https://t.co/3olhhKq9iU
¡ª Raghav Chadha (@raghav_chadha) May 1, 2021
Shortage of Oxygen has been a major issue for hospitals across Delhi and other cities amid the spike in the number of COVID-19 cases.
Not the first case
A few days ago two hospitals in Delhi had faced a similar situation and dozens of critical COVID-19 patients had died.
Reuters
The Delhi High Court had on Thursday asked the Centre as to why Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra were given more oxygen than they asked for while Delhi's allocation was not increased as per the request of the AAP government.
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