Oxygen storage capacity ramped up in Delhi"We have already installed 3 oxygen storage plants till now of 57 MT each, total capacity 171 MT. Work done on war footing. Grateful to all...
10 Jun, 2021, 01.31 PM IST
Centre creating 'artificial scarcity' of vaccines to benefit Bharat Biotech, SII, alleges AAPAddressing a press conference, AAP spokesperson Atishi said the government's vaccine drive has stopped in schools and this is the case thro...
28 May, 2021, 03.50 PM IST
26 COVID-19 patients die at GMCH in Goa; minister seeks HC probeGoa CM Pramod Sawant, who visited GMCH, said the gap between the "availability of medical oxygen and its supply to COVID-19 wards in the GM...
11 May, 2021, 04.20 PM IST
Kerala government warns of stern action against illegal hoarding of medical oxygenStating that stress has been laid on the rational use of oxygen, they said artificial scarcity of cylinders should not happen owing to unet...
07 May, 2021, 12.58 PM IST
IAF's heavy duty transport aircraft airlifts cryo-containers fron BangkokThe country is trying to procure as many cryo-containers as possible from across the globe to reduce bottlenecks in the transportation of o...
06 May, 2021, 09.47 PM IST
Oxygen crisis deepens in Karnataka with hospitals flagging concern over supplyAn executive of the Chaitanya Medical Centre in Yelahanka said there was an oxygen crisis on Monday due to which they had to shift all thei...
04 May, 2021, 03.49 PM IST
Hospitals should learn from this experience and set up oxygen plants, says Delhi High CourtA bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli said for commercial considerations, some hospitals reduce capital expenditures on things l...
01 May, 2021, 02.25 PM IST
3 sectors exempted from govt ban on non-medical use of liquid oxygenIn a letter to states and Union Territories on Monday, Bhalla said that three sectors -- ampules and vials; pharmaceutical and defence forc...
26 Apr, 2021, 08.08 PM IST
Centre bars use of liquid oxygen for non-medical purposes, asks plants to maximise productionThe order by Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla came amid a scarcity of medical oxygen in many parts of the country, particularly in Delhi, t...
25 Apr, 2021, 10.47 PM IST
SpiceXpress airlifts 800 oxygen concentrators from Hong Kong to DelhiAjay Singh, chairman and managing director, SpiceJet, said the airline, along with SpiceHealth, is "looking at bringing more than 10,000 ox...
24 Apr, 2021, 09.41 PM IST
AIIMS emergency department admissions briefly disrupted as oxygen pipelines reorganized amid high demandAround 100 coronavirus-infected patients are already receiving treatment at the emergency department. This is in addition to more than 800 ...
24 Apr, 2021, 04.39 PM IST
COVID-19: Hospitals in Delhi gasp for oxygen amid staggered supplyBatra Hospital in Tughlakabad Institutional Area received emergency oxygen supply from the Delhi government moments after it exhausted its ...
24 Apr, 2021, 12.27 PM IST
20 critically ill patients die in Delhi's Jaipur Golden Hospital amid oxygen scarcity"The oxygen pressure has dipped as we are running out of stock," Dr D K Baluja, the medical director of Jaipur Golden Hospital, told PTI. H...
24 Apr, 2021, 12.14 PM IST
Telangana ropes in IAF freighters to ferry oxygen from OdishaThe two C-17 aircraft has left for Odisha from Begumpet Airport and the empty tankers would be filled with liquid oxygen and return here by...
23 Apr, 2021, 05.45 PM IST
Ahmedabad: Crisis makes doctors beg, borrow oxygen from kin, other hospitalsWhat was once a rare request has become a norm with hospitals struggling to keep the hypoxic Covid-19 patients breathing in the current spi...
23 Apr, 2021, 02.14 PM IST
Industries can wait for oxygen, not COVID-19 patients: HCThe bench said it has heard that doctors at Ganga Ram Hospital were being forced to reduce oxygen being given to COVID-19 patients admitted...
20 Apr, 2021, 07.14 PM IST
No gap in oxygen supply to Delhi; industrial use banned, Centre tells HCThe Ministry of Health told the high court that there has been an inordinate increase of 133 per cent in the projected medical oxygen requi...
20 Apr, 2021, 04.08 PM IST