At a video-conference with CMs of Gujarat, Maharashtra and the administrators of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Shah also advised them to ensure adequate stocks of all essential medicines and supplies in the hospitals, keeping in view a likely disruption in the movement of vehicles, a statement issued by the Union home ministry said.
Earlier, amid the acute shortage of medical oxygen in several parts of the country due to a surge in COVID-19, the Finance Ministry had reduced the Integrated Goods and Services Tax (IGST) rate on the import of oxygen concentrators for personal use from 28 per cent to 12 per cent.
Gurugram Deputy Commissioner Yash Garg has asked all the hospitals with more than 50 beds capacity to manage their own liquid oxygen requirements.
Goa is treating Covid patients for free in all government hospitals, informed chief minister Pramod Sawant on Thursday. The government is also taking care of up to 80 per cent expense of those being treated for Covid in private hospitals.
Madhukar Rainbow Children's Hospital in Malviya Nagar on Sunday sounded an alarm about their depleting stocks around noon, saying 50 people, including four newborns, were "at risk".
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.
India has recorded the highest one-day tally of new Covid-19 cases anywhere in the world - and the country's highest number of deaths over 24 hours.
"Hospitals in Delhi are facing oxygen crisis receiving messages and emails from hospitals since morning," said Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on April 22.
PM Narendra Modi on Thursday chaired a high-level meeting to review the oxygen supply across the country and discuss ways and means to boost its availability. The officials briefed him on the efforts undertaken in the last few weeks to improve the supply of oxygen.
In view of the pandemic situation in the country, the government on Thursday announced that 100 new hospitals will have their own oxygen plant under PM-CARES Fund.
Family members of COVID-19 patients protested outside District collector office by sitting on road demanding supply of Remdesivir injection for the patients.
Amid surge in COVID-19 cases, Gujarat administration is installing 100 more ventilators at different hospitals in Vadodara for treatment of COVID-19 patients.
The Delhi government has notified 19 private hospitals where 80 per cent of ICU beds are to be reserved for Covid patients, 82 private hospitals with 60 per cent reservation and 101 private hospitals where 60 per cent ward beds are to be reserved for Covid treatment.
With the spike of COVID-19 cases in Delhi, Health Minister Satyendar Jain informed that Delhi government has increased 2000 beds in hospitals in the last 3 days.
Amid the recent spike in coronavirus cases, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on April 3 said that these days COVID case is not as severe to death case as reported earlier but it is coming in bunches.
As coronavirus cases have once again started surging in the national capital, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said there is no shortage of oxygen in Delhi hospitals and that enough stock is available for the next six to seven days.
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDAI) has urged hospitals to provide a cashless facility for the treatment of coronavirus and has called for strict actions against medical centers that do not provide the facility despite such arrangements with the insurers.
The Supreme Court has taken suo-motu cognisance of medical apathy in COVID-19 hospitals. The plea would be heard by a bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan at 10.30 am on Friday.
The Delhi Cabinet in a major decision on Sunday amid COVID-19 outbreak has decided that government hospitals in the city will treat only those COVID-19 patients who belong to Delhi.
It said, as per the guidelines issued by the government and the Delhi Heath Department earlier, asymptomatic and mild symptoms cases do not require hospitalisation, and are recommended to be either kept under home isolation or sent to COVID care centres or COVID health centres, if their houses are not suitable for home isolation.
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