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Ramp up infra, make all efforts to lift oxygen, Cabinet Secy to Delhi govt

Asks Delhi govt to set up dedicated helpline, make info on beds, drugs and other facilities available on websites

Family members of Covid-19 patients wait outside an oxygen-filling centre to refill their empty cylinders in New Delhi.
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Family members of Covid-19 patients wait outside an oxygen-filling centre to refill their empty cylinders in New Delhi.

Ruchika Chitravanshi New Delhi
The Union Government has asked Delhi to make all out efforts to lift its allocated oxygen, using all the means at its disposal, to ensure the oxygen available to it is distributed rationally and in a transparent manner, with no diversion or leakage.
 
Expressing anguish over the recent Covid deaths in Delhi due to lack of oxygen, cabinet secretary Rajiv Gauba in a meeting held to review the Covid preparedness in the national capital said Delhi needs to ramp up medical infrastructure at the earliest to cater to the increasing demand for Covid beds, ICUs and ventilators.
 
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