Please help: Delhi hospitals appeal for help amid severe oxygen crisis

Amid an unprecedented crisis over oxygen supply as the second coronavirus wave ravages the country some helpless hospitals in Delhi are advising relatives to shift their patients to another facility while several others have been left with no option but to use their backup stockMaking an urgent plea for oxygen supply Narin Sehgal director Sehgal Neo Hospital Meera Bagh said the facility had 120 COVID19 patients out of the total 150 and oxygen was left for another two hours onlySixty COVID patients in my hospital are in dire need of oxygen Sehgal said through a video messageI really dont know how to help my patients in a situation like this Sehgal said Ive been asking for help from everyone but nothing is coming through Please help meThe Fortis Hospital in Shalimar Bagh presently running on its backup oxygen supply urged the prime minister Delhi chief minister and other ministers for immediate assistanceThe Saroj Super Speciality Hospital having not received oxygen refill for the past 44 hours is now advising its patients to shift to other hospitalsWere running low on oxygen and using our backup now We have alerted our patients about the situation and are advising them to shift to another hospital Things are really uncertain Saroj Super Speciality Hospital medical director P K Bhardwaj told PTIBhardwaj said the hospital which needs three metric tonnes of oxygen per day on an average was only getting around an MT of oxygen for the past few days Seventy patients at the hospital are currently on oxygen supportSailing in the same boat is the Batra Hospital in Tughlakabad Institutional areaWATCH Dr SCL Gupta MD Batra Hospital Delhi breaks down as he speaks about oxygen crisis says We are requesting people to take their patients wherever O2 is available We understand patient is someones mother father if I lose someone close Id naturally feel bad pictwittercomwWB0zTiDu2mdash ANI ANI April 24 2021Sadly lost my aunt at Batra Hospital today as they ran out of OxygenIt doesnt seem like the Oxygen supply problem is going to get fixed within days Stating the obvious here but to avoid the situation getting even worse the healthy must strictly stay indoors and maskup httpstcocaE6wSo87Vmdash Kunal Bahl 1kunalbahl April 24 2021Weve run out of oxygen completely even the backup Batra Hospital executive director Sudhanshu Bankata told PTI We feel helpless have started asking families to take patients to other healthcare facilities where oxygen is availableBankata had warned the authorities of such a situation earlier in the day when the hospital received an emergency oxygen supply moments around 9 am He had said the stock would last another oneandahalf hours onlyThere are around 350 patients admitted at the hospital out of which 265 are coronavirus positive and 30 are in the ICUTwenty critical patients died overnight at Jaipur Golden Hospital in Delhi amid a serious oxygen crisis The hospital which has over 200 patients had only half an hour of oxygen left at 1045 amThe situation is equally worrisome at the Fortis Hospital which is running on its back up oxygen supply desperately waiting for the refill since morningFortis Shalimar Bagh is running out of oxygen Patients lives are at risk it tweeted issuing an SOSWe are running on backup waiting for supplies since morning We are currently suspending admissions Request immediate assistance PMOIndia ArvindKejriwal AmitShah PiyushGoyal rajnathsingh the hospital addedThe hospital said it was keeping the patients and attendants informed about the critical situation and trying to manage admitted patients to the best of their abilitiesElite hospitals like the Sir Ganga Ram which got a refill of 15 tonnes of oxygen said their present stock would last for two hours only The hospital requires a minimum of 11000 cubic metres of oxygen dailyWe were running oxygen at half the normal pressure This supply of 15 tonnes of oxygen will last for may be two hours The situation is scary an official saidThe facility had on Friday reported the death of 25 critical patients as the administration grappled with depleting oxygen suppliesIt asked the government for immediate intervention and consider reducing patient intake hospital chairperson D S Rana saidI appeal to both the Centre and the state to help On one hand they increased COVID beds and on the other they cant supply oxygen in sufficient quantity How are we supposed to work Rana askedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever