An oxygen tanker reached the Delhi’s GTB hospital just in time at 1:30 am on Tuesday. The tanker reached the hospital after the Delhi Health Minister informed that the hospital was running out of oxygen.
Around 500 Covid-19 patients, who needed oxygen support were admitted to the hospital on Tuesday and there was no hope of oxygen supply in the hospital.
“All of us had almost lost hope. We were racing against time. We didn’t want the 500 serious patients admitted in our facility to even know about the situation,” said the hospital doctors who were helpless at the situation.
“We were honestly praying to God for a miracle to happen. When we saw the oxygen tanker arrive at our premises, the entire staff was in tears,” said the doctors.
The Principal of University College of Medical Sciences Anil Jain at 11 pm yesterday said, “a catastrophe may occur in GTB hospital” if there is no supply of medical oxygen till 2 am.
The Delhi health minister even urged the centre to restore the supply of oxygen to the city’s hospitals. He even tagged the Railway Minister Piyush Goyal in his request.
Satyendra Jain also posted a screenshot that said, “There is great difficulty in getting supply of liquid medical oxygen and oxygen cylinders from vendor M/S INOX. According to local district authorities, DM and SSP (senior superintendent of police) do not allow the vendor to supply to other states like Delhi.”
“Acute shortage of oxygen at GTB Hospital. Oxygen may not last beyond 4 hrs. More than 500 corona patients on oxygen. Pl help@PiyushGoyal
to restore oxygen supply to avert major crisis,” tweeted Jain.
Just a couple of hours before the health minister’s tweet the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had also appealed to the centre to urgently provide oxygen to the Delhi hospital.
Calling the oxygen crisis serious he tweeted, “Serious oxygen crisis persists in Delhi. I again urge centre to urgently provide oxygen to Delhi. Some hospital are left with just a few hours of oxygen”.
As the country is reporting daily high records consistently, the capital is also reporting daily high spikes. Total 28,395 fresh Covid-19 cases were reported in Delhi on Tuesday that took the active cases to 85,000 in the city.
