Oxygen cylinders looted at Damoh hospital in Madhya Pradesh as Covid-19 continues to wreak havoc

Amid worsening Covid-19 scenario in Madhya Pradesh, relations of coronavius sufferers in Madhya Pradesh’s Damoh resorted to looting the tanks of medical oxygen at a government-run hospital. A video exhibits folks went berserk quickly after a truck ladden with medical oxygen cylinders reached the district hospital. 

Damoh district collector mentioned that there isn’t any scarcity of oxygen at hospitals in the district. He added {that a} case can be filed in opposition to these concerned in the looting and warranted that the administration will present all doable assist to the general public. 

“We have been told that as soon as Oxygen truck came, people looted cylinders even when the hospital has adequate Oxygen supply. We are identifying these people and filing cases,” the district collector mentioned.

Meanwhile, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has dialed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Ministers of Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Gujarat to guarantee uninterrupted oxygen provide to the state. He has urged the neighbouring states to take stern motion in opposition to all of the these blocking oxygen cylinders provide to Madhya Pradesh.

Chouhas has assured that efforts are on to present higher therapy to sufferers contaminated with Covid-19. He mentioned that Remdesivir injections are being equipped by airways in completely different components of the state in order that the individuals who want it might probably get them in time.

Several states together with Madhya Pradesh are witnessing a recent wave of Covid-19. Cities like Bhopal, Indore and Gwalior in the landlocked state aer worst-hit by the pandemic.

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