Oxygen scarcity: (*50*) Madhukar Rainbow Children Hospital raises alarm, says 50 lives at risk
(*50*) Madhukar Rainbow Children Hospital Sunday sounded an alarm about their dwindling shares of oxygen, saying 50 individuals, together with 4 newborns, are “at risk”.
An official of the in Malviya Nagar hospital stated there are round 80 sufferers, together with these affected by Covid-19, at the hospital. It additionally has 15 newborns, he stated.
“There 50 people, including four newborns, on oxygen support,” he stated.
The hospital doesn’t have a liquid oxygen storage tank and depends upon oxygen cylinders from a non-public vendor.
“It has become a daily fire-fight exercise in the absence of a continuous supply. We require around 125 oxygen cylinders a day,” the official stated.
On Saturday, 12 Covid-19 sufferers, together with a senior physician, had died at south (*50*) Batra Hospital after the power ran out of medical oxygen for round 80 minutes within the afternoon.
Several hospitals in Delhi proceed to grapple with a scarcity of oxygen, as coronavirus circumstances proceed to spike each passing day.
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