Delhi, 21 April 2021 – There is a severe oxygen crunch at Delhi St Stephen’s Hospital. Doctors say oxygen supply is now at this hospital. It remains only for the next couple of hours, barely two hours, and there are 300 COVID patients on oxygen support at the hospital.
The condition is very, very serious as far as the St Stephen’s Hospital is concerned and it is not unique to the St Stephen’s Hospital. We keep hearing our leaders and politicians telling us that there is no crunch of oxygen, but the ground reality is quite different. The hospital authorities have told us that they have only oxygen left till 6 pm. This evening, they were expecting supplies from a company which is based in Haryana. Their supply was to come from Faridabad.
But that supply has not come. What sources are telling us is that because the government of Haryana has, in fact, the plant and is not letting oxygen tankers leave that place. The government has instructed the company to first apply it to hospitals in Haryana and then in fact go to their other commitments. The hospital right now has reached out to the government of Delhi and to the central government and all other organizations that they can to try and procure oxygen, 300 COVID patients in the hospital are on oxygen support.
The situation is very, very critical. Meanwhile, it’s just not this hospital that this plant in Faridabad Haryana also supplies to other two hospitals that are Holy family and some part to Apollo as well. In other hospitals in Delhi, you know, in various hospitals, the supply right now is between three hours to 80 hours. That’s how thin the oxygen supply is.
And at a time when most COVID patients are coming in with very, very severe symptoms, breathing difficulties, oxygen, which is the is the most precious commodity, to say the least. While hospitals right now are struggling to save their patients.
