New Delhi: Just a week after 20 critically ill Covid-19 patients died at Jaipur Golden Hospital in Delhi because of lack of oxygen, at least 12 Covid-19 patients, including a senior doctor, died due to the same reason at Batra Hospital in the capital on Saturday. Confirming this to TOI, Dr S C L Gupta, medical director of the hospital, said: “They could have been saved.”
The city has been gasping for oxygen for a week now.
The 500-bed hospital had around 326 Covid patients. Of these, according to Gupta, 220 were on high-flow nasal oxygen while 48 were in the ICU requiring bi-pap and ventilator support when supply was disrupted at around 12.30 pm. “Six patients in the ICU, including one of our own doctors— gastroenterologist Dr R K Himthani—died while we were struggling to get the oxygen supply restored. Two others admitted in the wards also died. We managed to resuscitate four others at that point, but they died of complications caused by oxygen shortage minutes later,” said Dr Gupta.
Dr Himthani, one of the 12 who died, had been diagnosed with Covid about two weeks ago, hospital sources said. “He was shifted to the ICU recently and put on a bi-pap machine. He could have survived if not for this disruption in oxygen supply,” said a source. Dr Himthani’s wife, who is a gynaecologist, is also suffering from Covid and admitted in the same hospital.
New Delhi: Just a week after 20 critically ill Covid-19 patients died at Jaipur Golden Hospital in Delhi because of lack of oxygen, at least 12 Covid-19 patients, including a senior doctor, died due to the same reason at Batra Hospital in the capital on Saturday. Confirming this to TOI, Dr S C L Gupta, medical director of the hospital, said: “They could have been saved.”
The city has been gasping for oxygen for a week now.
The 500-bed hospital had around 326 Covid patients. Of these, according to Gupta, 220 were on high-flow nasal oxygen while 48 were in the ICU requiring bi-pap and ventilator support when supply was disrupted at around 12.30 pm. “Six patients in the ICU, including one of our own doctors— gastroenterologist Dr R K Himthani—died while we were struggling to get the oxygen supply restored. Two others admitted in the wards also died. We managed to resuscitate four others at that point, but they died of complications caused by oxygen shortage minutes later,” said Dr Gupta.
Dr Himthani, one of the 12 who died, had been diagnosed with Covid about two weeks ago, hospital sources said. “He was shifted to the ICU recently and put on a bi-pap machine. He could have survived if not for this disruption in oxygen supply,” said a source. Dr Himthani’s wife, who is a gynaecologist, is also suffering from Covid and admitted in the same hospital.
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