No state, UT reported death due to oxygen shortage during lockdown in last one year, Rajya Sabha toldPawar informed the House that health is a state subject but the Government of India has maintained data of total cases and deaths reported ...
08 Feb, 2022, 07.23 PM IST
Indian Railways to deliver 200 tonnes of liquid medical oxygen to Bangladesh on SundayThe train with 10 containers departed from Tatanagar in Jharkhand on Saturday and is expected to reach Benapol in Bangladesh tomorrow. "Fir...
24 Jul, 2021, 03.04 PM IST
Opposition terms government stand inhumane; BJP says ‘not a single state sent such data’Rejecting as “false” the Centre’s claim, the health minister in the Delhi government, Satyendar Jain, on Wednesday said the Centre did not ...
22 Jul, 2021, 08.11 AM IST
Priyanka alleges govt increased export of oxygen by 700% in 2020Gandhi said, "The (Narendra) Modi government increased its oxygen exports by over 700 per cent in the year 2020, a pandemic year. Most of t...
29 May, 2021, 02.53 PM IST
Maruti Suzuki India making efforts to enhance production of oxygen generatorsThe company has also pitched medium- and big-sized hospitals to install oxygen PSA (pressure swing adsorption) generators to avoid oxygen s...
27 May, 2021, 04.36 PM IST
India’s COVID crisis pushes up the cost of living – and dyingThe only available hearse driver charged 5,000 Indian rupees ($68) for a 6-km (four-mile) journey to the nearest crematorium – five times t...
14 May, 2021, 04.59 PM IST
Oxygen shortage in India sparks hunt for $1,000 machinesWhen healthcare facilities are running short of oxygen tanks and beds, the portable machine is increasingly becoming a line of defense for ...
13 May, 2021, 02.56 PM IST
Blanket ban on oxygen supply to industries stops production of much-required oxygen cylindersTwo of the largest manufacturers of oxygen cylinders, Everest Kanto Cylinder and Rama Cylinders have stopped production for the past two da...
06 May, 2021, 03.53 PM IST
Kinks in oxygen supply chain irk courts, impede manufacturersWith demand skyrocketing, oxygen producers as well as steelmakers and oil refiners have ramped up capacity. The country is producing suffic...
05 May, 2021, 06.51 AM IST
Covid-19 patients with hypoxaemia & rising cases: Why is India facing a deadly oxygen crunch?The country is hit despite producing oxygen over 7,000 tonnes a day.
30 Apr, 2021, 01.05 PM IST
View: In India's capital, whether you and your loved ones live or die depends on who’s in your phone bookDenialism about the scale of the problem is official policy. Ministers, bureaucrats and even government lawyers insist that there is no sho...
30 Apr, 2021, 07.21 AM IST
Oxygen supplies can be augmentedVarious companies are chipping in with oxygen and containers. Onsite MO plants at large hospitals can reportedly be built at relatively mod...
27 Apr, 2021, 05.07 PM IST
History of medical oxygen: How the key to Covid fight once used to be a feared thingOxygen’s history in medicine begins in the 1770s, when the Swedish pharmacist Karl Scheele and the British scientist Joseph Priestly indepe...
27 Apr, 2021, 11.11 AM IST
COVID-19: What is oxygen saturation and when does one need oxygen supportDoctors have taken to social media to highlight oxygen shortage, as state governments knock high courts to streamline equitable oxygen dist...
24 Apr, 2021, 04.59 PM IST
ITC to airlift cryogenic containers, oxygen concentrators, generators to augment oxygen suppliesThe latest initiatives from ITC is to support the oxygen crisis which has emerged due to the ruthless Covid-19 second wave lashing India at...
24 Apr, 2021, 02.31 PM IST
Secondary steel players gasp for oxygen as supply is restricted“We are facing a shortage of oxygen supply. There is no doubt that the oxygen requirements for medical use should be met. The logistics of ...
02 Oct, 2020, 11.57 AM IST
No shortage of oxygen for medical use; states asked to improve inventory managementThere is no shortage of oxygen for medical use but the states have to improve inventory management, the health ministry said on Tuesday as ...
15 Sep, 2020, 08.51 PM IST