After being infected with Covid-19, sixty-two-year-old Prakash Dutt Dwivedi admitted himself at the Batra Hospital and Medical Research Cen...
After being infected with Covid-19, sixty-two-year-old Prakash Dutt Dwivedi admitted himself at the Batra Hospital and Medical Research Centre in South Delhi on April 26. On May 1, his relatives got a call at noon from the hospital saying Dwivedi’s condition was deteriorating.
“Within 15 minutes we found out that he passed away,” said Amit Bharadwaj, Dwivedi’s relative.
The cause of death was not simply Covid-19, however. “When we reached the hospital we saw a lot of crowd there and then we found out it happened because of an oxygen shortage,” Bharadwaj said.
On May 1, at least 12 patients died at Batra Hospital after the facility fell short of medical oxygen, crucial in the treatment of Covid-19. The hospital had confirmed that the deaths had taken place because of a shortage in oxygen.
This is not the first such incident to take place in the capital. For at least two weeks now, Delhi’s hospitals have been starved for oxygen. Most of them have resorted to putting SOS requests for oxygen on social media, a cycle that repeats itself almost daily.
And the depleting stocks and delayed supplies have had devastating results. At least 20 patients under critical care died at Jaipur Golden Hospital in North West Delhi on...
