We are grateful to Centre, tweets Kejriwal after Delhi’s oxygen quota raised

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday thanked the Central authorities for growing Delhi’s Oxygen quota. The Chief Minister who raised the priority of elevating the quota for the nationwide capital tweeted immediately saying they are very grateful to the Centre for this.

Kejriwal on Tuesday urged the Centre “with folded hands” to present medical oxygen to Delhi and his deputy Manish Sisodia mentioned there might be chaos within the metropolis if the shares are not replenished by Wednesday morning.

ICU beds in Delhi hospitals have been additionally filling up quick amid a surge in coronavirus infections.

Oxygen standing in Delhi

Only 30 of them have been obtainable for coronavirus sufferers in authorities and personal hospitals throughout the nationwide capital at 10 pm, in accordance to information from town authorities’s Delhi Corona app.

“Serious oxygen crisis persists in Delhi,” Kejriwal tweeted, including some hospitals are left with just some hours of inventory. In one other tweet, he mentioned, “I urge the Central government with folded hands to urgently provide oxygen to Delhi.”

“Most hospitals in Delhi have only eight to 12 hours of oxygen left. We have been asking the Centre to increase its supply for the last seven days. There will be chaos in Delhi if hospitals do not get enough oxygen by Wednesday morning,” Sisodia tweeted in Hindi.

He additionally posted a notice on Twitter mentioning the standing of oxygen inventory in varied hospitals.

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According to the notice, Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital, Burari Hospital, Ambedkar Hospital, Sanjay Gandhi Hospital, BL Kapoor Hospital and Max Hospital in Patparganj have been amongst these having solely eight to 12 hours of oxygen left at 6 PM.

Delhi Health Minister request to Union Minister Piyush Goyal

Health Minister Satyendar Jain despatched an SOS to Union minister Piyush Goyal at 10:20 pm, saying “oxygen at GTB Hospital may not last beyond 4 hrs.”

“More than 500 corona patients on oxygen. Pl help @PiyushGoyal to restore oxygen supply to avert major crisis.”

According to Jain, Delhi bought 240 metric tonnes of oxygen on Monday and 365 MT on Tuesday towards the requirement of 700 MT per day.

Sir Ganga Ram Hospital mentioned its oxygen inventory would final until 1 am. The hospital has 485 COVID beds, of which 475 are occupied. Around 120 sufferers are at the moment within the ICU.

Its chairman DS Rana mentioned, “6,000 cubic meters of it is left, which at the rate of current consumption will last till 1 am. Need urgent replenishment.”

Kejriwal had on Sunday termed scarcity of oxygen for coronavirus sufferers an “emergency”. He had additionally written to Union Minister of Commerce and Industries Piyush Goyal, in search of his intervention within the matter.

On Monday, the Delhi authorities arrange a 24-member committee to guarantee “rational” use of oxygen for the remedy of COVID-19 sufferers. An order issued by the Health Department mentioned the ‘Oxygen Audit Committee’ will determine areas of wasteful consumption.

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