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551 Oxygen Plants to Come up Using www.fi rstindia.co.in OUR EDITIONS: www.fi rstindia.co.in/epaper/ JAIPUR, AHMEDABAD twitter.com/thefi rstindia facebook.com/thefi rstindia & LUCKNOW instagram.com/thefi rstindia AHMEDABAD l MONDAY, APRIL 26, 2021 l Pages 12 l 3.00 RNI NO. GUJENG/2019/16208 l Vol 2 l Issue No. 149 Pvt docs livid over ‘ludicrous’ govt order to audit oxygen Gargi Raval is important to use oxy- in the daily oxygen stand why the govern- The state has gen as per the need and consumption per pa- ment has to issue new Ahmedabad: State not let it go to waste,” tient in that register, circulars every day. We asked Health Secretary Shivhare’s letter says. which should kept sep- are doctors. We are Jaiprakash Shivhare It adds: “To stop the arate from the patient’s very aware of how to medical staff on Saturday issued a unnecessary usage of case papers. This use medical oxygen letter to hospitals (oxygen), and as a part should be strictly fol- and how much oxygen to keep notes across Gujarat, direct- of precautions as per lowed and violation of each patient needs. If ing them to audit their the Epidemic Disease the same would invite government officials of oxygen oxygen consumption. Act of 1897 and as pre- penalties.” want an audit of medi- This has not gone down scribed under the Gu- Private doctors called cal oxygen usage, they consumed well with medical per- jarat Epidemic Regula- the directive ludicrous will have to deploy sonnel who, despite al- tion 2020, all hospitals and unrealistic. staff for this them- at their ready being exhausted, in the state--both pri- “The doctors across selves,” said Dr Bharat facilities continue to attempt to vate and government- the state are keeping Gadhvi, president of COVID staunch the flow of run--have been asked to medical records of Ahmedabad Hospital VACCINE COVID-19 patients. keep a register for oxy- COVID-19 patients, and Nursing Home As- Given the increased gen. The doctor or A worker refi lls an empty oxygen cylinder at a plant in which is the need of the sociation. demand for oxygen, “it anaesthetist should fill Ahmedabad’s Vatva area. —PHOTO BY HANIF SINDHI hour. We do not under- Turn to P6 551 OXYGEN PLANTS TO COME UP USING Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that he is expressing ‘Mann Ki PM CARES FUND Baat’ at a time when this covid storm is testing our patience. New Delhi: The PM CARES Fund will be utilised to set up 551 oxygen generation Centre supporting plants in public health fa- cilities across the country, the Prime Minister’s Office states in this fight, (PMO) said on Sunday. The plants, which will be made operational “as soon as pos- PM’s Mann ki Baat sible”, will ensure uninter- New Delhi: Prime Min- rupted supply of oxygen in ister Narendra Modi has government hospitals at said the Centre is “fight- district headquarters, the CORONA ing with all its might to PMO added. CATASTROPHE support states in fight The announcement comes against coronavirus”. To tackle this at a time when several hospi- INDIA Speaking in his monthly wave of COVID, I tals in the country have com- 3,49,691 radio address “Mann ki have held meet- plained of severe shortages new cases Baat” in the backdrop of ings with experts of medical oxygen. a crippling oxygen crisis “In line with Prime Minis- NOW, DELHI EXTENDS WILL SEND RAW MATERIAL 2,767 in the national capital, from many fields ter’s direction of boosting new fatalities PM Modi said the gov- like pharma in- availability of oxygen to hos- LOCKDOWN BY WEEK FOR COVISHIELD, SAYS US ernment of India is dustry, oxygen pitals, the PM CARES Fund New Delhi: The ongoing lockdown in Washington: Expressing “deep RAJASTHAN “dedicated to taking for- production etc. I has given in-principle ap- Delhi has been extended by another sympathy for the people of India ward the efforts of the also urge people proval for allocation of funds 15,809 state governments to week, with the national capital still following the recent spike in COVID-19 new cases not to believe in for installation of 551 dedi- showing a high positivity rate despite a cases”, the United States on Sunday tackle the current COV- cated Pressure Swing Ad- ID19 situation”. rumours regard- marginal drop in the daily said it will send across the raw material 74 ing vaccination sorption (PSA) Med- needed urgently for the manufacture of new fatalities “I’m speaking to you ical Oxygen Genera- coronavirus fi gures. Making the at a time when COV- Narendra Modi, Covishield vaccine in India. “The United tion Plants inside O2 announcement on Sunday, Delhi ID-19 is testing our pa- Prime Minister public health fa- Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal States has identifi ed sources of specifi c tience and capacity to cilities in the coun- said: “Coronavirus still continues raw material urgently required for bear pain. Many of our try. PM has directed to wreak havoc in the city. Public Indian manufacture of the Covishield loved ones left us un- experts from many that these plants opinion is that lockdown should vaccine that will immediately be made timely. After success- fields like pharma in- should be made increase. So the lockdown is being available for India,” the White House fully tackling first wave, dustry, oxygen produc- functional as soon as possi- extended for one week”. said in a statement. the nation’s morale was tion etc,” the Prime ble. He said that these plants high, it was con- Minister said. will serve as a major boost to fident. But Since last week, thou- oxygen availability at the HUNDREDS OF OXYGEN CONCENTRATORS, this storm sands of Covid patients district level,” the PMO stat- VENTILATORS SENT TO INDIA, SAYS UK (second in Delhi have been ed in a press release. wave) has struggling to breathe, It added that the in-house London: The United Kingdom said it was sending life-saving medical shaken the with various hospitals, oxygen generation facility equipment to India - including ventilators and oxygen concentrators. nation,” he small and large, flagging would address “day to day The shipment is expected to reach Delhi on Tuesday. 9 containers said. oxygen shortage every medical oxygen needs of carrying over 600 pieces - including 495 oxygen concentrators, 120 “To tack- few hours. One hospital hospitals”. non-invasive ventilators and 20 manual ventilators - will be sent. le this wave said it lost 25 lives over- of COVID, I night on Saturday due have held to the shortage. meetings with Turn to P6 34 West Bengal assemblies across five 82 killed, 110 injured in fire at ICU unit of hospital in Baghdad Baghdad: Iraq’s Interi- districts go to polls in 7th phase today or Ministry said on Sunday that 82 people Kolkata: Over 86 lakh 796 companies of central to the infection, pushing died and 110 were in- voters in West Bengal forces in the seventh the toll to 10,884. jured in a catastrophic will decide the political phase to ensure free and Voting will be held at fire that broke out in fate of 284 candidates fair voting, he said. 12,068 polling stations the intensive care unit on Monday, when 34 as- It will also put in spread over nine assem- of a Baghdad hospital sembly constituencies, place measures to en- bly constituencies each tending to severe coro- including Chief Minis- sure strict adherence to in Murshidabad and navirus patients. Negli- ter Mamata Banerjee’s COVID-19 protocols Paschim Bardhaman gence on the part of home turf Bhabanipur, during the voting pro- districts, six each in hospital authorities has The charred remains of the Ibn al-Khatib hospital in Baghdad. go to polls in the sev- cess, the official said. Dakshin Dinajpur and been blamed for the Sat- enth phase, amid a rag- West Bengal on Satur- Malda and four in Kolk- urday night fire, which fired key hospital offi- virus, tweeted Ali al-Bay- ing second wave of day registered its high- ata, the official said. All initial reports suggest cials hours after the ati, a spokesman of the COVID-19. est-single- day spike of eyes will be on the Bha- was caused when an catastrophic incident. country’s independent Security measures particularly the death of Election Commission of- 14,281 coronavirus cas- banipur constituency, of oxygen cylinder explod- Among the dead were Human Rights Commis- have been heightened in five people in Cooch Be- ficial said. es, which took the tally which the TMC supre- ed in the ward of Ibn at least 28 patients on sion. The commission is view of the violence in har in the fourth round The poll panel has de- to 7,28,061, and at least 59 mo is the sitting MLA al-Khatib hospital. ventilators battling se- a semi-official body. the previous phases, of polling on April 10, an cided to deploy at least more people succumbed and a resident. Turn to P6 Iraq’s prime minister vere symptoms of the Turn to P6 NEWS www.fi rstindia.co.in I www.fi rstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefi rstindia I facebook.com/thefi rstindia I instagram.com/thefi rstindia AHMEDABAD | MONDAY, APRIL 26, 2021 02 Trudging along.... After healthcare facilities, Ahmedabad is now also facing a shortage of dustbins at its crematoriums, which are operating at max capacity almost 24x7. Staff at the Dhudheshwar Crematorium in the city's Juna Vadaj area have started using discarded PPE kits to haul garbage, unaware or uncaring of the risk they pose.
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