Delhi hospitals still struggling to secure enough O2 supplies

Hospitals in Delhi continued to struggle in getting timely oxygen supply on Monday amid an increasing number of Covid-19 cases. A flurry of SOS messages continued to flood social media platforms like Twitter for seeking help and timely supplies of oxygen. Jaipur Golden Hospital in West Delhi, where 20 patients died on Friday night due to the lack of oxygen, on Monday morning tweeted: “We are trying to get in touch with INOX since this morning to ensure our daily oxygen supply reaches on time.

Have not got any response or dispatch note yet. Alerting everyone now in the hope of preventing another SOS situation today.” Later, the hospital confirmed it received oxygen supplies. Private hospital chains like Max Healthcare, Fortis and Indraprastha Apollo said they were hopeful that the supplies would improve. “They (oxygen supplies) were a little better on Monday. We have to just wait and watch,” spokesperson at Indraprastha Apollo hospital said.

As reported by ET, some leading private hospitals in Delhi including Max and Fortis Escorts Heart Institute had suspended fresh admissions due to inadequate supplies of oxygen and an increasing number of Covid-19 patients. Max hospital officials said they have not changed their decision on admissions yet. “We don’t have beds and enough oxygen.


Till the supplies improve we will have to suspend or bring down admissions,” one of them said. Fortis said the oxygen supplies were better today in its chain of hospitals. However, it said the waiting list is getting longer. Meanwhile, as hospitals in Delhi run out of beds, people have started finding ways to get treatment for sick patients at home, buying oxygen concentrators and ICU setups for home.