On Friday, while the Delhi High Court was hearing the matter of allocation of medical oxygen by the Centre, the court asked a counsel if h...
On Friday, while the Delhi High Court was hearing the matter of allocation of medical oxygen by the Centre, the court asked a counsel if his brother-in-law, a Covid-19 patient, had been allotted an ICU bed. But the counsel told the court: “The help isn’t needed anymore. He just passed away.”
This is just one instance, but across the city, patients have scrambled beds in private as well as publicly run hospitals as Covid-19 cases have surged to soaring heights. For nearly two weeks, Delhi has reported over 20,000 cases daily. On Friday, it recorded 27,047 cases, making the total number of active cases to nearly a lakh.
When the cases began to rise, patients called hospitals but in vain, after which their patients went to hospitals only to be turned back. With Delhi’s hospitals overwhelmed, several ambulances have driven patients outstation to cities like Jaipur, Chandigarh and Lucknow, reported Indian Express.
With nowhere to turn and desperate for help, several relatives and patients have put their pleas and SOS requests for beds on social media, especially Twitter. These requests have inundated social media feed and users on these platforms have doubled up as volunteers to amplify pleas for beds, oxygen and medical supplies.
But this is not sustainable and cannot...
