We are importing 21 ready-to-use Oxygen plants from France. They can be brought to use immediately. These will be installed at different hospitals and this will help us in resolving Oxygen crisis in those hospitals: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said that the 21 ready-to-use Oxygen plants will be imported from France.
A five-star hotel has been selected as the COVID-19 care centre for judges and judicial officers of the Delhi High Court and their families. A hundred rooms in central Delhi's Ashoka Hotel have been booked for this purpose.
In the midst of the Corona crisis, the family members of patients outside LNJP Hospital in Delhi are in a bad condition. There is a huge shortage of beds in the hospital.
Amid a sharp rise in the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the national capital, the ITBP run Sardar Patel Covid Care Centre at the Radha Soami Satsang Beas facility with 500 oxygen beds started functioning today, said Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday. He further announced that 200 ICU beds will also be added at the Covid Care Centre in the next few days. He also thanked the Central government for providing doctors and medical staff of ITBP at the facility.
Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Sunday urged hospitals in Delhi not to raise alarms unnecessarily over oxygen shortage and appealed to the media to verify claims before reporting. Such acts hamper efforts to provide help to hospitals that really need assistance, Sisodia, who is also the nodal minister for COVID-19 management in Delhi, said.
Delhi's Pentamed Hospital on Sunday morning said that it was left with only one and half hours of oxygen supply.
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Hospital beds for Covid-19 patients at Delhi's Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality hospital have been slashed by half owing to the shortage of medical oxygen.
The government is also planning to assign the Indian Air Force to airlift in oxygen containers and equipment from friendly nations.
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Delhi recorded 24,638 fresh COVID-19 cases and 249 deaths due to the viral disease on Wednesday while the positivity rate stood at 31.28 per cent, meaning almost every third sample tested positive.
Delhi recorded 24,638 fresh COVID-19 cases and 249 deaths due to the viral disease on Wednesday while the positivity rate stood at 31.28 per cent, meaning almost every third sample tested positive.
Mata Chanan Devi Hospital in Delhi is running out of oxygen supply since today morning, news agency ANI reported.
Hours after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced a week-long lockdown in the national capital, it triggered panic among migrant workers who rushed to Anand Vihar Bus Terminal in Ghaziabad on Monday evening to return to their homes. Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal announced a six-day lockdown from 10 pm on Monday till 5 am on April 26 which he said was necessary to deal with the rising number of COVID-19 cases as the city's health system was stretched to its limits.
Delhi government has imposed a six-day complete lockdown to deal with the rising number of COVID-19 cases.
Delhi is worst-hit by the fresh wave of Covid-19, reporting record number of daily cases in the last one week. The city registered as many as 23,686 fresh coronavirus cases on Monday, pushing the tally over 8.77 lakh.
"Earlier average 14-15 bodies used to come here but now 50-60 bodies are coming daily from various places. Last rites are a time-consuming process and this place has only limited area for bodies," a local social worker said.
A six-day lockdown has been imposed in Delhi in view of an exponential rise in Covid-19 cases. Long queues were soon spotted outside liquor shops in different parts of Delhi.
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