Twenty-five “sickest” coronavirus patients have died at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi in the last 24 hours amid a last-minute scramble f...
Twenty-five “sickest” coronavirus patients have died at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi in the last 24 hours amid a last-minute scramble for oxygen, ANI reported on Friday. In a statement released around 8 am on Friday, the director of the hospital warned that they had oxygen for only two more hours and that 60 more patients were at risk.
The hospital said authorities were resorting to manual ventilation in Intensive Care Units and the emergency department. “Major crisis likely...Need urgent intervention,” the statement added.
Citing sources, reports said that low oxygen pressure could have led to the deaths of 25 patients.
Ganga Ram Hospital, one of Delhi’s top private facilities, is treating 510 coronavirus patients, according to News18. This includes 142 patients on high flow oxygen support.
Over the last few days, several hospitals in Delhi have said that they were in crisis as they were running out of oxygen. The demand for oxygen is likely to rise since coronavirus cases are growing exponentially in the country due to the second wave of the pandemic. Max Hospitals and Saroj Super Specialty Hospital in Delhi’s Rohini area had moved the Delhi High Court, seeking urgent assistance to sort out the crisis.
On Thursday, the High Court had directed the Centre to ensure that oxygen supplies and its transportation remained undisrupted....
