


Many other patients are on the edge, Bankata said while not ruling out further fatalities as stress due to low oxygen supply deteriorates patient condition.Įarlier, 20 patients died of low oxygen at Jaipur Golden Hospital and 25 at Gangaram Hospital. The hospital has 326 patients, of which 306 are Covid patients and 230 are on high flow oxygen. “The Centre has to ensure the entire promised allocation is delivered to Delhi,” he said. Against Batra Hospital’s daily quota of 7 metric ton oxygen, only 4.9 MT is reaching. The death toll in Sundays boat tragedy in Odisha has reached 22, with the recovery of more bodies overnight, a senior police official said Monday. A tanker arrived at 1.25 pm by when the deaths had occurred.Īmong the deceased is hospital’s own in-house gastro expert RK Hithani, who also couldn’t be saved.īankata said oxygen supply situation is not easing and is in fact worsening. People transfer a dead body at a hospital in Sambalpur district of the eastern Indian state of Odisha, Feb. Medical Superintendent of the faculty Sudhanshu Bankata said all the deceased were highly critical and on high flow oxygen support.īankata said the hospital has been sending SOS alarms to the coordination mechanism platform formed by the Delhi Government for oxygen supply since 7 am today.įor one and a half hours before the patients died, there was no oxygen left at the hospital.

Another tragedy unfolded in the National Capital on Friday after 12 critical Covid patients, including the HoD of Gastroenterology Department, of Batra Hospital in Mahrauli died due to oxygen shortage.
