Photos: Delhi’s hospitals sound alarm as oxygen supplies run out
Updated On Apr 24, 2021 12:25 AM IST
- Several hospitals in the national capital issued new distress messages about their dwindling oxygen supply as the crisis continued on April 22, prompting the Delhi government to hit out at what it described as “jungle raj” by neighbouring states of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. The Union government, too, made new interventions, invoking the Disaster Management Act to remind all states that anyone restricting supplies will face punitive action under the law.
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A Covid-19 patient on oxygen support waits outside Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital (LNJP) for a bed, in New Delhi on April 22. A problem that came into focus early on April 20, when several hospitals in the Capital said they were on the verge of oxygen supplies running out, recurred on April 21 and April 22, with close to 1,000 critically ill patients being in danger on both days.(Ajay Aggarwal / HT Photo)
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A notice pasted outside Shanti Mukund Hospital notifying a shortage of oxygen beds, in New Delhi on April 22. Multiple hospitals -- including Sir Ganga Ram, Saroj, Holy Family, Aakash, and Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty — said they had either run out of their liquid medical oxygen and had switched to back-up cylinders, or were soon in danger of running out. Some even discharged patients and asked them to go to other facilities.(Amal KS / HT Photo)
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Health workers checking empty oxygen cylinders at in ESIC (Indira Gandhi) Hospital Jhilmil in New Delhi on April 22. The Union government increased Delhi’s quota of daily oxygen supply from 378MT to 480MT on April 21, but officials said even this may not be adequate and the additional capacity was likely to take time to arrive.(Raj K Raj / HT Photo)
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A Covid-19 patient on oxygen support waiting for admission amid a shortage of beds, at LNJP Hospital, in New Delhi on April 22. At least 15 hospitals across the city had less than five hours of oxygen on April 22, according to figures compiled by the Delhi government, which kept going back-and-forth with the Centre and neighbouring states to ensure supply.(Amal KS / HT Photo)
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A digital information board notifies complete occupancy of Covid-19 beds at LNJP Hospital on April 22. At 9pm on April 22, there were a mere 15 ICU beds – of them only four with ventilators – remaining for Covid-19 patients in the national capital, the Delhi government’s hospital resource reporting app showed. The vacant beds accounted for 0.32% of the 4,663 ICU beds for Covid-19 cases. Of the 20,443 regular hospital beds for people with the coronavirus, only 10.5% -- or 2,141 – were available at the same time.(Amal KS / HT Photo)
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A woman holds onto her personal oxygen cylinder at LNJP Hospital, on April 22. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal raised the issue of Delhi’s oxygen shortages and problems in transportation of supplies from other states in a meeting PM Modi held on April 23 with chief ministers of 10 states with the most number of Covid-19 cases.(Amal KS / HT Photo)
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Police personnel make a green corridor for passage of a tanker carrying medical oxygen for COVID-19 patients to Shanti Mukand Hospital in New Delhi on April 22. The Union ministry of home affairs has had to intervene and order all states to ensure allotted quota of oxygen be allowed to be supplied to states other than where the medical oxygen plants are located.(PTI)
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