New Delhi: As a number of hospitals within the nationwide capital have been flagging oxygen scarcity, Delhi’s Saroj Super Speciality Hospital on Saturday (April 24) said that they’ve stopped admitting new sufferers because of lack of oxygen provide.
Facing acute scarcity of oxygen, the hospital, located in Rohini, has additionally began discharging all old sufferers.
“We are closing the admissions as a result of of an oxygen scarcity. We are discharging the sufferers,” the COVID-19 in-charge of Saroj Hospital instructed ANI.
The in-charge knowledgeable that the hospital has 70 crucial COVID-19 contaminated sufferers and want oxygen instantly.
“We haven’t received backup oxygen supply yet. We have 70 patients who are in critical condition and need oxygen. If we don’t get oxygen supply there could be a big disaster. We have started discharging patients,” he added.
On Friday, Saroj Super Speciality Hospital had filed a plea on the Delhi High Court in search of pressing instructions to the Centre and Delhi authorities to facilitate an pressing crucial oxygen provide to it.
“The supply of Liquid Medical Oxygen has been very erratic and irregular with only 4 – 6 hours supply being made by the Vendor, i.e. INOX, which also reaches the Hospital only when the Oxygen in the tank is at the brink,” the petition learn.
Earlier, not less than twenty critically sick sufferers died in a single day at Jaipur Golden Hospital in Delhi because of oxygen disaster.
Moolchand Hospital, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH), Batra Hospital and Jaipur Golden hospital put out SOS calls on Saturday morning and urged the federal government to rearrange the oxygen provide on the earliest.
(With inputs from ANI)
