Each cookie is unique to your web browser. What are cookies?Ĭookies are simple text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device by a website’s server. By visiting you agree that may use cookies to be processed by Google Analytics and Yandex.Metrika. Also on rt.Please read this cookie policy carefully before using operated by us. Government officials said they were urgently importing oxygen tankers and generators from Germany, France, and Thailand. On Monday, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called the dire situation in the country “beyond heartbreaking.” India’s death toll from Covid-19 shot past 200,000 on Wednesday, marking the seventh consecutive day with more than 300,000 new infections. Mishra, an oxygen supply officer at the Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organization, told ThePrint online newspaper that there was little government oversight in the oxygen supply chain for hospitals before the pandemic. Oxygen shortages were caused by the rapid rise in coronavirus infections combined with problems in manufacturing and logistics. “It’s like a war situation,” a nurse at New Delhi’s Moolchand Hospital told NDTV, describing how the staff was struggling with depleted oxygen stock. Over 200 lives at stake if liquid medical oxygen is not supplied by 9:00 PM tonight. Next impending oxygen crises in Jaipur Golden Hospital.
India Today wrote on Saturday that more than 20 Covid-19 patients had reportedly died in the hospital amid the shortage. On April 24, Delhi’s Jaipur Golden Hospital tweeted that over 200 lives were at stake if medical oxygen was not delivered by 9pm that day. Hospitals and local officials have pleaded with the government to help. Indian media described horror stories of people using auto-rickshaws to race between hospitals in desperate search of oxygen for sick family members, and hundreds standing in lines for life-saving treatment. Last week, officers raided a Delhi house where 48 tanks were stored illegally by another dealer. On Sunday, police in the northern Haryana state recovered more than 170 tanks in a sting operation, arresting a seller. Police have been conducting raids in Delhi and other parts of India on dealers who hoard oxygen tanks and sell them illegally, as hospital patients end up gasping for air due to shortages.
Medical oxygen is vital for saving people with severe cases of Covid-19, many of whom have major breathing problems. Four Oxygen cylinders and one large commercial Oxygen cylinder recovered from their possession. Delhi: Two people arrested by Punjabi Bagh Police for black marketing of Oxygen cylinders.
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