New Delhi: On Tuesday night, Delhi well being minister, Satyendar Jain pointed at an enormous oxygen scarcity confronted by Guru Teg Bahadur hospital one of many main hospitals engaged on treating Covid sufferers.
With solely 4 hours of oxygen was left for about 500 critically sick sufferers, Jain requested he requested Union minister Piyush Goyal for assist. The current provide was not anticipated to final past 2 AM
Just half an hour was left when an Oxygen tanker reached GTB hospital and the lives of the 500 sufferers might be saved.
“All of us had nearly misplaced hope. We had been racing towards time. We did not need the 500 critical sufferers admitted in our facility to even know concerning the state of affairs”, a doctor told India Today.
“We were honestly praying to God for a miracle to happen. When we saw the oxygen tanker arrive at our premises, the entire staff was in tears,” they added.
To talk about the scarcity of Oxygen provide, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Lt. Governor Anil Baijal are to carry a gathering at 11 am at present. They are prone to talk about the surging Covid deaths within the union territory as properly.
Meanwhile, Congress chief Priyanka Gandhi Vadra criticized the Central authorities amid the present state of affairs within the nation. Speaking to information company ANI on Wednesday, the Congress chief questioned Centre for being unprepared regardless of ‘Serosurveys indication that 2nd wave is imminent.’
She raised questions concerning the shortages in provides, she stated: “India’s production capacity for oxygen is one of the largest in world. Then why’s there a shortage? You had 8-9 months (between first & second wave), your own Serosurveys indicated that a 2nd wave is imminent, you ignored it. You had time. Today, only 2000 trucks in India can transport oxygen. How tragic it is that oxygen is available but it’s not reaching where it should.”
