Eight Covid-19 patients, including the HOD of gastroenterology department, of Batra Hospital here died due to oxygen shortage, officials said on Saturday. The facility ran out of medical oxygen – for the second time in the space of a week – at 11.45 am on Saturday.
We are trying to revive five other critical patients, said a hospital official, reported PTI “6 Covid patients died in ICU ward and 2 in main ward (due to oxygen shortage) today. We could not save them even after making effort from our end. Since this wave hit the country, we’ve been demanding oxygen from the govt,” said Dr SCL Gupta, Medical Director of Delhi’s Batra Hospital.
“Our executive director is in regular touch with government officers concerned and has been updating them about our oxygen stock. INOX and Goel are two oxygen suppliers who supply us oxygen. Neither of them picks up our call,” Gupta further told ANI.
“At 7 am, we raised an alarm that we will run out of oxygen by 12 pm. Delhi government didn’t have any oxygen to supply to us. We were without oxygen till 1:35 pm. As a result, we lost 8 patients,” Dr Sudhanshu Bankata, CEO, Batra Hospital, told a news channel.
Hospitals across the national capital had sent out SOS messages last week about depleting supplies of oxygen.
The Delhi government has maintained that the city is not getting its allocated quantity of the life-saving gas. Meanwhile, Delhi High Court on Saturday warned of contempt action against Centre if the allocated 490 MT of oxygen is not supplied to Delhi today.
The court took note of eight deaths in Batra Hospital due to lack of oxygen supply and told the Central government “enough is enough”. “Do you mean we will shut our eyes to the people dying in Delhi,” it asked the Centre. “We mean business.
Water has gone above the head,” the court said and declined to defer its order.
The court said the government had made an allocation of oxygen to Delhi and should fulfill it. Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal reacted to the ‘painful’ news on Twitter and said the national capital should be given its quota of oxygen. “This news is very painful. These lives could have been saved – by giving oxygen on time. Delhi should be given oxygen of its quota. Such deaths of our people are not seen anymore. Delhi required 976 tonnes of oxygen and yesterday only 312 tonnes of oxygen was given. How does Delhi breathe in such a low oxygen?,” said Kejriwal on Twitter.
ये खबर बहुत ही ज़्यादा पीड़ादायी है। इनकी जान बच सकती थी -समय पर ऑक्सिजन देकर दिल्ली को उसके कोटे की ऑक्सिजन दी जाए। अपने लोगों की इस तरह होती मौतें अब और नहीं देखी जाती। दिल्ली को 976 टन ऑक्सिजन चाहिए और कल केवल 312 टन ऑक्सिजन दी गयी। इतनी कम ऑक्सिजन में दिल्ली कैसे साँस ले? https://t.co/h7C5bcFtD6
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) May 1, 2021
Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia also reacted to the news on Twitter by bringing out the mismatch in supply and demand of oxygen in the city. “The central government yesterday told the Supreme Court that 10,000 MT oxygen is produced daily in the country, which is quite surplus to the daily requirement of 7500MT. Delhi needs 976MT, yet Delhi’s quota is 490MT and supplies only 312MT. Why?,” said Sisodia.
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