Two Covid-19 patients who were on ventilators with high flow oxygen died due to technical issues in supplying the life saving gas during wee hours of Monday, official said
Air India's A102 is transporting five tonnes (5000kg) of oxygen concentrators as cargo from the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York and is scheduled to land in Delhi by Monday noon
4 patients died in a private hospital in Rewari on Sunday allegedly due to a shortage of medical oxygen. District administration launched an investigation to ascertain the reason
The government is using "linear programming", an operation research tool, to get oxygen to cities from their nearest sources
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A senior government official said India was urgently looking at augmenting oxygen supply
Amid oxygen shortage and a faltering health system in the country, India is seeing over 300,000 cases daily
The US will also urgently send oxygen generation and related supplies to India
The e-commerce giant has joined hands with ACT Grants, Temasek Foundation and Pune Platform for Covid-19 Response to airlift over 8000 oxygen concentrators and 500 BiPAP machines from Singapore
Port chairpersons have been asked to personally supervise logistic operations to ensure unhindered movement of such consignments
Though just a blip compared with the nearly 6,600 MT medical oxygen produced per day, the Railways has been able to open a pathway from large infrastructure projects to cities
The United States is also pursuing options to provide India with oxygen generation and related supplies
India is struggling with a second wave of the pandemic with more than 300,000 new coronavirus cases being reported daily in the past few days
On Friday, Dharmendra Pradhan tweeted that steel units across India had supplied over 143,000 tonnes of liquid medical oxygen till now with steel CPSEs pitching in with 39,000 tonnes
Over the weekend, many companies stepped in to ease the bottleneck in supply and transportation of oxygen, as demand ran high with the surge in cases
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The railways has chalked out plans to transport medical oxygen from Angul, Kalingnagar, Rourkela and Raigarh to Delhi and NCR region
An oxygen tanker had reached the hospital after the staff spent hours running around in search of supplies and making frantic calls to the government and police
Problems continue for patients in home isolation.
Delhi's Penatamed Hospital on Saturday reported a severe oxygen shortage