Delhi | Oxygen shortage
'How long after a patient dies should hospitals issue SOS': Hospital asks after Manish Sisodia's 'unnecessary alarm' tweet
Delhi/IBNS: Delhi Hospitals that have been red-flagging oxygen shortage and approached the Delhi High Court to ensure supply have lambasted Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia who in a series of tweets on Sunday asked them not to raise "unnecessary alarm" when they still have oxygen stocks.
Sisodia said he had received calls to replenish oxygen from two hospitals which had 72 hours of stock left.
"Yesterday the Deputy Chief Minister made a statement that hospitals are making unnecessary SOS calls. Should hospitals wait without oxygen? How long after a patient dies should hospitals issue SOS," questioned the Jaipur Golden hospital, according to an NDTV report.
The hospital had lost 25 patients over the weekend due to lack of oxygen.
"This morning I got an oxygen SOS call from a hospital that has 18KL available at the moment, whereas its one day cost is 4.8KL. Its storage capacity is also 21KL. That is, he has about 72 hours of oxygen available," Sisodia's tweet read.
He said such a condition was adding to the stress on an already overstretched health system and increasing the anxiety of the people.
"I request the hospitals not to raise unnecessary alarm on the lack of oxygen. By doing this, there is a problem in getting help to the needy hospitals," one of his tweets read.
The Delhi High Court had stated that the Centre and the state should ensure uninterrupted oxygen supply instead of the hospitals reaching out to the court for its intervention in the matter.
The hospitals on Monday accused the Arvind Kejriwal government of mismanagement, saying that the prevailing uncertainty over oxygen supply has been due to the Delhi government.
"There are two issues here: Shortage and uncertainty. The uncertainty is only because of the Delhi government," the hospitals told the court.
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