Oxygen Shortage: 8 Covid-19 Patients Die At Delhi’s Batra Hospital Due To Lack Of Supply For Over 1 Hour

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New Delhi: At least eight Covid-19 sufferers, together with the HOD of gastroenterology division of Delhi’s Batra Hospital, breathed their final on Saturday resulting from oxygen scarcity, officers mentioned.

“We are trying to revive five other critical patients,” PTI quoted Batra Hospital Medical Director Dr S C L Gupta as saying.

This comes because the hospital had despatched out SOS message earlier about depleting provides of oxygen.

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“Oxygen will last for another 10 minutes. 326 patients are admitted at this hospital,” the Batra Hospital mentioned earlier.

Meanwhile, the Batra Hospital knowledgeable the Delhi High Court that the lives have been misplaced as they have been out of oxygen for a while as we speak, including the oxygen tankers reached them someday again.

“We ran out of oxygen at 12.45 pm. The supply came at 1.30. We were out of oxygen for 1 hour and 20 minutes,” the hospital advised the High Court.

In tune with the identical, the Delhi High Court recommended the hospital set up an oxygen generator.

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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) authorities has up to now maintained town shouldn’t be getting its allotted amount of life-saving fuel.

(*1*) Delhi Water Minister and AAP nationwide spokesperson Raghav Chadha posted on Twitter earlier within the day.

This is the second time in a single week that Batra Hospital has run out of medical oxygen. Earlier on April 24, the hospital acquired a last-minute re-supply that arrived minutes after its provide ran out.

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