Ganga Ram Hospital gets 64 refilled oxygen cylinders

Aditi Tandon

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, April 26

In a big relief, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital received 64 refilled oxygen cylinders on Monday as amid oxygen supply crisis, the hospital has been battling an oxygen cylinder problem too.

The hospital has 104 oxygen cylinders, which are used for transferring extremely sick Covid patients from Covid emergency to ICU and from wards to ICU in case of an emergency.

This is happening very frequently currently with many sick patients being admitted. The hospital authorities earlier said all 104 cylinders were sent three days back to three different locations for emergency refill, but none have been returned so far. For the last three days, the hospital staff had been camping at the refill units, but to no avail, they had said.

The authorities said they were on “beg and borrow mode” and it was an extremely crisis situation.

“Hospital has arranged two cylinders, which are also going to finish quickly. It is getting extremely difficult and risky to shift patients.  Kindly help,” chairman DS Rana had said earlier.