Delhi Oxygen Shortage

Six-Member Panel To Assess Covid Deaths In Delhi Due To Oxygen Scarcity

India News | Press Trust of India | Thursday May 27, 2021

The Delhi government has formed a six-member committee to assess cases of patients who died due to lack of oxygen recently in the national capital for grant of compensation, an official order said on Thursday.

Lessons Be Learnt From Bitter Experience, Install Oxygen Plants: High Court To Delhi Hospitals

Delhi News | Press Trust of India | Friday May 21, 2021

High Court asked all the big hospitals in Delhi with 100 or more beds to install PSA oxygen plants, saying the bitter experience everyone had due to the acute shortage of medical oxygen, for treating Covid patients, has left a lesson to be learnt.

"Delhi's Oxygen Bulletin...": MLA's Tweet Days After Supreme Court Order

Delhi News | Reported by Sharad Sharma, Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan | Sunday May 9, 2021

Delhi received 499 metric tonnes of oxygen - less than the Supreme Court-mandated supply of 700 MT per day - from the centre on Sunday, despite it being warned by the court that it is in contempt of its orders

Over 100 Oxygen Concentrators Seized From Delhi's Popular Khan Market

Delhi News | Reported by Neeta Sharma | Friday May 7, 2021

The Delhi Police raided two popular food joints in the city's iconic Khan Market and recovered over 100 oxygen concentrators, used for treatment of Covid patients, officials said on Friday.

Delhi Creates Management System For Transport, Distribution Of Oxygen

India News | Reported by Sukirti Dwivedi, Edited by Vaibhav Tiwari | Thursday May 6, 2021

The Delhi government has formed a decentralized management system for the distribution of oxygen to hospitals and other institutions in the coronavirus-hit city.

Assure 'No Deaths' If Delhi Gets 700 Tonnes Oxygen Daily: Arvind Kejriwal

India News | Edited by Divyanshu Dutta Roy | Thursday May 6, 2021

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said that his administration "won't let anyone die" of oxygen shortage if it got the earmarked 700 tonnes of supply from the central government amid the unprecedented coronavirus crisis.

Delhi Patients In Home Isolation Can Now Apply Online To Get Oxygen

India News | Reported by Sharad Sharma, Edited by Harish Pullanoor | Thursday May 6, 2021

Delhi residents living in home isolation due to COVID-19 needn't worry about availability of oxygen anymore. The state government has set up a new system to ensure the smooth availability of cylinders to those who need them.

Need "Comprehensive Plan": Supreme Court Deadline For Centre On Oxygen

India News | Reported by A Vaidyanthan, Edited by Harish Pullanoor | Wednesday May 5, 2021

The Centre and state governments are doing their best amid the oxygen crisis and it is pointless to jail officials for contempt, the top court said today before staying a Delhi High Court contempt notice against officials for not following orders.

Oxygen: Supreme Court To Hear Today Centre's Plea On Delhi Court Order

India News | Reported by A Vaidyanathan, Edited by Harish Pullanoor | Wednesday May 5, 2021

The Centre today moved the Supreme Court against a Delhi High Court order on oxygen availability in the national capital and the lower court's threat to pursue contempt charges against officials for non-compliance. The court will her the plea today.

"You Can Bury Your Head In Sand Like Ostrich, But...": Court Raps Centre

India News | Edited by Anindita Sanyal | Tuesday May 4, 2021

The Central government's failure to implement the Delhi High Court's order on immediate supply of full quota of oxygen to Delhi evoked the judges' wrath on Tuesday.

Delhi Doctor Among 12 Dead After Batra Hospital Ran Out Of Oxygen

India News | Reported by Arvind Gunasekar, Sukirti Dwivedi, Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan | Saturday May 1, 2021

Delhi Oxygen Shortage: Twelve people, including one doctor, died at Delhi's Batra Hospital on Saturday afternoon after the facility ran out of medical oxygen - for the second time in the space of a week - at 11.45 am

Delhi To Have 44 Oxygen Plants By Next Month, France To Give 21: Arvind Kejriwal

Delhi News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday April 27, 2021

With Delhi facing a crippling shortage of life-saving oxygen, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today said his government will import 18 cryogenic tankers from Thailand and 21 ready-to-use oxygen plants from France.

"How Long After Patient Dies...?" Hospital Hits Out At Delhi Government

India News | Edited by Anindita Sanyal | Monday April 26, 2021

Delhi hospitals that have approached the High Court on oxygen shortage have taken strong exception to Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia's tweets yesterday that asked hospitals not to raise "unnecessary alarm" when they still have oxygen stocks.

Supplying Oxygen To 800 Hospitals, Only Delhi Complaining: INOX In Court

Delhi News | Reported by Arvind Gunasekar, Edited by Anindita Sanyal | Monday April 26, 2021

Oxygen supplier INOX today told Delhi High Court that it is "supplying oxygen to 800 hospitals across the country and only the ones in Delhi" are complaining. This, Inox said, is happening when its supplies for Delhi have been cut down by the Centre

"Outright False Statements": Delhi-Centre Blame Game On Oxygen Crisis

India News | Reported by Akhilesh Sharma, Edited by Anindita Sanyal | Monday April 26, 2021

In the Centre versus Delhi clash over the oxygen crisis in hospitals in the capital, government sources have blamed the Arvind Kejriwal government, accusing it of delaying planned oxygen plants. The Delhi government has rubbished the allegation, call