Delhi hospitals ship out SOS, say Haryana blocking oxygen provide

The oxygen disaster in Delhi deepened on Wednesday as a number of non-public hospitals pleaded with the state and the central governments to instantly replenish their provides to avert a tragedy. Top non-public hospitals in Delhi like Max, Fortis, Apollo, and Sir Ganga Ram reached out to the Delhi authorities relating to depleting oxygen provides.
The disaster started to unfold after many hospitals complained that Linde India Limited, which provides oxygen to Delhi from its plant in Faridabad, has been stopped by the Haryana authorities from supplying outdoors the state.
With over 300 Covid sufferers admitted, St. Stephen’s Hospital was the primary to ring the alarm on Wednesday. Around 4 pm, the hospital mentioned that it was left with oxygen provide to final till 8 pm.
In a letter to Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain, the director of the hospital wrote: “St Stephen’s Hospital is regularly procuring liquid oxygen and oxygen cylinders from Linde agencies, with their plant located in Faridabad, Haryana. The stock gets refilled on a daily basis. However, today at 2 pm we were informed by Linde agencies that their plant in Haryana is sealed and they are unable to supply oxygen to the hospital today. At present 300 Covid-19 patients are admitted in St Stephen’s Hospital who are on continuous high flow oxygen. The present stock will get over by 8 pm. We are pleading for your help to initiate appropriate action urgently and ensure supply of oxygen to the hospital within hours.”

The inventory was finally replenished by 7 pm.
“We have received the oxygen that may last till Thursday afternoon,” Dr Joseph informed The Indian Express.