25 'Sickest' Patients Die At Sir Ganga Ram Hospital In Delhi After Oxygen Shortage

Oxygen Shortage: 25 'sickest' patients at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi have died in last 24 hours

Sir Ganga Ram Hospital | Getty

It is being reported that 25 'sickest' patients at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi have died in last 24 hours after shortage of oxygen at the hospital. Sources informed news agency PTI that low pressure oxygen is the likely cause for the death of these patients.

Director-Medical, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in a statement said that the oxygen will last another 2 hours at the hospital and ventilators & Bipap are not working effectively.

As per statement Director-Medical, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, lives of another 60 'sickest' patients is in peril as the hospital staff has resorted to manual ventiltion in ICUs and ED. 

"There is a need of Oxygen to be airlifted urgently. Lives of another 60 sickest patients in peril," Director-Medical, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital statement added.

ABP News has learned that the Oxygen tanker reached Sir Ganga Ram Hospital this morning via a green corridor from Rohini.  

Meanwhile on Thursday, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia informed Health Ministry that as many as six private hospitals in Delhi have exhausted their oxygen stocks.

In his letter to the Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan, Sisodia the nodal officer for Covid management in Delhi said: "Six private hospitals - Saroj Super Specialty Hospital, Shanti Mukund Hospital, Tirath Ram Shah Hospital, UK Nursing Home, Rathi Hospital and Santom Hospital - have run out of oxygen".