Page 19 - Oxygen

'We're calling it wave, it's actually tsunami': Delhi HC on Covid crisis

The court also told the Delhi govt to give it one instance of who was obstructing the oxygen supply and said 'we will hang that man'

Delhi hospitals raise SOS signal over oxygen shortage, seek help from govt

More hospitals in the national capital continued to send out SOS calls reporting shortage of oxygen and sought help from authorities to ensure supply

IAF transports 2 trucks with liquid oxygen from Pune to Gujarat's Jamnagar

The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Saturday transported two container trucks of liquid oxygen from Pune to Gujarat's Jamnagar

Cryogenic tanks for transporting oxygen being airlifted from Singapore: MHA

Amid the grim Covid-19 situation in the country, four cryogenic tanks, to be used for the transportation of oxygen, is being airlifted from Singapore on Saturday

Maharashtra: Oxygen Express reaches Nashik, four tankers unloaded

The first Oxygen Express carrying liquid medical oxygen tankers from Visakhapatnam reached Nashik in Maharashtra on Saturday morning. The train reached Nasik Road station at 10.25 am, where four tankers were unloaded, the Central Railway (CR) said in a statement. Tweeting about it, Minister of Railways Piyush Goyal said, "'Oxygen Express' train loaded with liquid medical oxygen tankers from Vizag has reached Nashik. 4 Oxygen tankers have been unloaded to provide additional oxygen to the patients." Of the seven tankers filled with liquid medical oxygen, three were unloaded in Nagpur after the train arrived there at 8.10 pm on Friday. After its departure from there, the train reached Nashik in 12 hours, the CR said. The train was carrying 100 tonnes of medical liquid oxygen from Rashtriya IspatNigam Ltd in Vishakhapatnam, from where it had begun its journey on April 22. "Railways took the movement of Oxygen Express as a challenge and successfully ran the first Oxygen .

Oxygen shortage: Six patients die at Covid-19 hospital in Punjab's Amritsar

Six patients died at a private hospital here on Saturday due to the shortage of oxygen, hospital authorities said

Covid-19 crisis: Hospitals scrape bottom of barrel as oxygen runs out

Not just patients, social media is seeing cries of help from big hospitals which have often been left with just a few hours of supply

20 patients die in Delhi's Jaipur Golden Hospital amid oxygen scarcity

The hospital received the last refill of oxygen around midnight, after hours of delay

Tata, Linde procure 24 oxygen transport tanks in Germany, await airlifting

On April 21, the Tata Group had stated that it is 'committed to doing is much as possible to strengthen the fight against Covid-19' and to 'mitigate the oxygen crisis'

Second wave: 1,000 tankers out on long road as patients gasp for breath

Not about supply of oxygen alone, it's also about transportation and storage

PM asks India Inc to step up oxygen supply, calls for united effort

He urged the industry to utilise tankers meant to transport other gases for oxygen supply

PM Modi pulls up CM Kejriwal for televising meeting on Covid situation

During the meeting, Kejriwal warned that a dire tragedy could be on the cards as major hospitals face oxygen shortage

Covid-19: India gas maker shares jump amid shortage of life-saving oxygen

Supplies of medical oxygen, essential in many cases to treat seriously ill patients, have been depleted as hospitals around India have been overwhelmed by Covid-19 cases

Nashik tragedy: Pune hospitals asked to conduct oxygen supply system audit

In the wake of the oxygen leak tragedy in Nashik that claimed 22 lives, the authorities in Pune have asked all the hospitals to conduct a third-party safety audit of the oxygen supply system

Oxygen crisis: 25 Covid-19 patients die at Delhi's Sir Ganga Ram Hospital

Lives of another 60 such patients are at risk, officials said on Friday amid a serious oxygen crisis unfolding in the national capital

Uttar Pradesh: Prescription now mandatory to buy, refill oxygen cylinders

The Uttar Pradesh government has now made a doctor's prescription mandatory for buying oxygen or refilling cylinders

Oxygen crisis: Hospital in Varanasi shifts 9 patients to BHU Trauma Centre

As many as nine Covid-19 patients were shifted to the BHU Trauma Centre in Uttar Pradesh Varanasi on Thursday due to the lack of liquid medical oxygen at a private hospital

Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi sends SOS; only 2 hours of oxygen left

Delhi's Sir Ganga Ram Hospital on Friday sent an SOS to the Arvind Kejriwal government, saying the lives of 60 sickest patients are in peril due to dwindling oxygen in the hospital

Covid-19: India to import oxygen generation plants, containers from Germany

Amid reports of shortage of oxygen in hospitals during the second wave of Covid across the country, India will be importing oxygen generation plants and containers from Germany to cater the shortage

Even record death toll may hide extent of India's Covid-19 crisis

On Thursday, India blew past the global record of daily new infections with 314,835 new cases. With nearly 16 million cases in total, it is the second-worst affected nation in the world