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Twenty-one of them shortage of the life saving oxy- Punjab Medical Education pitals facing oxygen shortage to died in Jaipur Golden Hospital, gen during the time of Covid Minister OP Soni, however, shift their patients to while it was touch and go affair pandemic, prompting Punjab refuted the charge and claimed Government medical colleges. for hundreds of others who sur- Government to order a probe that no proper information Devgan claimed that after vived due to replenishment of into the incident. was given by the hospital about the death of patients, only five oxygen in the nick of time. The hospital said five of the any shortage of oxygen. He oxygen cylinders were sup- As oxygen supply began to six patients were infected with claimed a mere simple message plied to the hospital. The hos- run out and patients and TV Covid-19. Sunil Devgan, the was dropped in a WhatsApp pital chairman claimed that channels screamed the plight chairman and managing direc- group to the administration. three main oxygen suppliers of patients and their relatives, tor of Neelkant hospital where As soon as Punjab Chief have said that Government Batra Hospital in Delhi’s the deaths occurred, alleged Minister Capt Amarinder Singh hospitals are being prioritised. # $ %&' ( Tughlakabad Institutional Area !" that despite the district admin- came to know about the inci- Continued on Page 6 !" received emergency oxygen supply from the Delhi Government moments after it pressure has dipped as we are till midnight. Even then, the exhausted its stock. running out of stock,” Dr DK hospital just received 40 per Similarly, many other hos- Baluja, Jaipur Golden Hospital cent of its allocated quota and pitals received supply in the medical director, told PTI. is again in a situation of crisis. ' #. / kmph. demand for medical oxygen nick of time. The countdown He said the hospital has Incidentally, 25 Covid “The arrival of two trucks has shot up. for the next delivery is on. over 200 patients and they had patients had died in elite Sir of medical oxygen will meet After taking stock of the Delhi’s Saroj hospital only half an hour of oxygen was Ganga Ram Hospital on Friday. ith States clamouring for around half the demand of situation, the Piyush Goyal-led closed admission to patients on left at 10:45 am. It received the Executive Director of Batra Wthe supply of oxygen, the Lucknow for Saturday. The Railway Ministry explored the Saturday due to oxygen supply last refill of oxygen around Hospital, Sudhanshu Bankata, Indian Railways has chalked state capital will now be in a technical feasibility of trans- shortage. The Rohini-based midnight, after hours of delay. said the healthcare facility out a major plan for unhin- better position,” Additional portation of LMO. It was decid- hospital started discharging “Nobody has promised exhausted its oxygen stock at dered transportation of Liquid Chief Secretary (Home) ed that LMO has to be trans- patients amid the crisis and anything. Everybody is saying around 9 am. Medical Oxygen (LMO) across Awanish Kumar Awasthi said. ported through Roll On Roll closed new admissions. Doctor we will do our best,” the med- “We received an emer- the key corridors of the coun- The first Oxygen Express Off (RO RO) service with road Mayur, who is the incharge of ical director said when asked if gency supply from the Delhi try through Oxygen Express train that left Visakhapatnam tankers placed on flat wagons the Covid ward at the hospital, the hospital received any help government during the day. It trains. During the last 24 hours on Thursday reached Nagpur and the services of which has said the facility has 70 critical from the Government. Dr will last another one-and-a-half the Railway Oxygen Expresses in Maharashtra on Friday begun by creating a “Green patients, and there could be a Baluja said the hospital has over hour. Our supplier has not delivered nearly 150 tonnes of evening with seven tankers Corridor” on the existing rail- “big disaster” if the hospital 200 patients and 80 per cent of been responding to calls,” he oxygen to health authorities in carrying the life-saving medical way tracks. doesn’t get oxygen in time. them are on oxygen support. said. There are around 350 Nashik and Lucknow. gas. In order to ensure that The crisis turned cata- Around 35 patients are in the patients admitted in the hos- An Oxygen Express train the State health infrastructure was created between Lucknow Amid the spiralling coro- parameters of transportation strophic as 20 critically ill ICU, he said. pital, of which 265 are Covid- carrying three tankers of liquid battling a grim phase of the and Varanasi. The distance of navirus cases in the country are tested, trials were conduct- patients admitted at Jaipur The hospital was to receive 19 positive and 30 are in the medical oxygen arrived in pandemic. 270 km was covered by the and more specifically in affect- ed at various locations during Golden Hospital at Rohini, its quota of oxygen at 05:30 pm ICU. Uttar Pradesh on Saturday For the movement of the train in 4 hours 20 minutes ed States like Maharashtra, the last week. died overnight. “The oxygen but the supply did not reach it Continued on Page 6 morning giving a big relief to oxygen train, a green corridor with an average speed of 62.35 Gujarat, Delhi, Jharkhand, the Continued on Page 6 the needy with distributors or medicines suppliers who take the benefit of the situation, sell- s the country grapples with ing these vials at a higher Athe worst-ever health cri- price,” he said. sis following the surge in Covid A few days ago, the Crime cases, the black marketing of Branch of Delhi Police had the life-saving drug Remdesivir arrested four persons in two has made life difficult for the separate incidents for alleged- patients and their families. The ly black-marketing the injectable drug, repurposed Remdesivir injections in the for Covid-19 treatment, is national Capital. being sold six times higher than According to Monika its actual price. Bhardwaj, the Deputy On April 17, the Central Commissioner of Police Government capped the price tees about the genuineness of indulged in black marketing (DCP), Crime Branch, two of Remdesivir currently man- the drug. allegedly. A 40- year-old man accused, nabbed by the police ufactured by seven companies Sneha Lata, a resident of who did not wished to be used to supply the injection in India. A 100-mg vial of the Karawal Nagar, said she bought named said his uncle, who across the country through drug manufactured by Cadila the Cipla’s Remdesivir for through a medical shop in one courier company based at now has a maximum retail 20,000, which is six times than Saket, managed to arrange four Chandni Chowk, Delhi. price of 899, Syngene’s 2,450, the actual price. vials for 40,000 but later on he In another instance, two Dr Reddy’s 2,700, Cipla’s “For us now life is impor- came to know that the vials other accused persons were 3,000, Mylan’s 3,400, tant not money. So we were in were sold for 55,000 to anoth- arrested from near Batra Jubilant’s 3,400, and Hetero’s dire need and did not have any er person. Hospital, MB Road, Delhi, who 3,490. other option but to buy injec- A source told The Pioneer were trying to sell the injections But leaving no chance to tion from the black market, that if anyone wants at exorbitant prices. Ten vials of exploit people and fill their which was arranged by one of Remdesivir he should get in Remdesivir were recovered pockets, the pharma supply our friends through a distrib- touch with his doctor in small- from the accused persons. chains are selling the medica- utor,” she said. er private hospitals. “The doc- The accused persons use to tion by charging obscene Several pharma compa- tors are not taking commis- sell these injections in black amounts, with no real guaran- nies across the city are also sions but they are connecting Continued on Page 6 .$ /0& en workers of the Border TRoads Organisation (BRO) n view of the prevailing died, seven are injured and 29 are ICorona pandemic, Allahabad missing following an avalanche High Court extended all its rime Minister Narendra in the Indo-China border region orders till May 31, 2021 and PModi on Saturday in Chamoli district in directed the government as expressed confidence that rural Uttarakhand on Friday. well as financial institutions not villages would be able stop the The accident occurred in the to take any action during the second wave of the Covid-19 Sumna area of Niti valley in period. “like they did last year.” Chamoli. According to officials, A Division Bench of acting Addressing a ceremony of of the seven injured rescued Chief Justice Sanjay Yadav and Panchayat Raj Diwas, he said from the site, six are being treat- Justice Prakash Padia while the challenge before the nation ed at the army hospital in hearing a PIL suo motu said on posed by the pandemic is “a lit- Joshimath while one has been Saturday that all interim orders tle more than the last year” and referred to Dehradun.