Posted on 04/23/2021 8:58:29 AM PDT by rajesh0540
As major hospitals in New Delhi pleaded for more supplies to save COVID-19 patients who were unable to breathe on social media on Friday, India put oxygen tankers on special express trains. An oxygen-fed fire tore through a coronavirus ward in a populated western province, killing more than a dozen people.
The world's worst coronavirus surge is wearing down India's underfunded health sector, which set a global high of daily infections for the second day in a row with 332,730.
In a nation of nearly 1.4 billion inhabitants, India has confirmed 16 million cases, second only to the United States. In India, there have been 2,263 deaths in the last 24 hours, for a total of 186,920.
A fire in a hospital intensive care unit killed 13 COVID-19 patients early Friday in the Virar district on Mumbai's outskirts.
The condition is deteriorating by the day, with hospitals turning to social media to beg the government to replenish their oxygen stocks and trying to halt new patient admissions.
Max Hospital, a large private hospital chain in the capital, tweeted that one of its hospitals had just one hour's worth of oxygen in its system and had been waiting for replenishment since early morning. They had filed a petition in the Delhi High Court two days ago, claiming that they were running out of oxygen, endangering the lives of 400 people, 262 of whom were being cared for COVID-19.
According to Railroad Minister Piyush Goyal, the government has begun operating Oxygen Express trains with tankers to meet hospital shortages. According to the government, the air force also airlifted oxygen tanks and other supplies to places where they were requested, as well as doctors and nurses to New Delhi.
Delhi: Rathi Hospital in Nafajgarh receives oxygen cylinders. The hospital earlier ran out of supply of oxygen. pic.twitter.com/NqvmNUr1X9
â ANI (@ANI) April 21, 2021
âWe have excess oxygen at plants that are far from where it is required right now. âTransporting oxygen from these plants is a challenge,â said Saket Tiku, president of the All India Industrial Gases Manufacturers Association. âWe have increased demand because oxygen consumption is skyrocketing. But we have limits, and the most difficult task right now is getting it to where it is desperately needed. â
On Thursday, the Supreme Court informed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government that it needed a "national programme" for supplying oxygen and critical medicines to coronavirus patients.
According to the Press Trust of India, the Defense Ministry will fly 23 mobile oxygen generation plants from Germany to deal with the shortage. According to the company, each plant would be able to produce 2,400 litres of oxygen per hour.
The New Delhi government has released a list of a dozen government and private hospitals that are suffering from a severe lack of oxygen.
Questions were posed at another hospital in the capital on whether insufficient oxygen levels were to blame for the deaths.
According to the Press Trust of India, 25 COVID-19 patients died at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in the previous 24 hours, and the lives of another 60 were jeopardised due to a severe oxygen supply crisis. Unidentified officials were quoted as saying that âlow pressure oxygenâ may have been the cause of their deaths.
Oxygen support has ended at Rathi Hospital. I am here at Mundka plant but they are not giving oxygen cylinders. We are helpless: Kaustubh Tiwari, head marketing, Rathi Hospital in Najafgarh, Delhi#COVID19 â ANI (@ANI) April 21, 2021
A hospital spokesman, Ajoy Sehgal, declined to comment about whether the 25 patients died as a result of a lack of oxygen. He mentioned that an oxygen tanker had just arrived at the hospital complex and hoped that it would temporarily replenish the dwindling stocks.
The hospital chairman later told the New Delhi Television channel that the deaths could not be attributed to a lack of oxygen.
The early Friday fire on the outskirts of Mumbai was the second fatal incident involving COVID-19 patients at a hospital this week.
According to Dilip Shah, CEO of Vijay Vallabh hospital, the fire on the second-floor ICU was extinguished and some patients needing oxygen were transferred to nearby hospitals. According to Shah, there are 90 patients in the hospital, which is located about 70 kilometres (43 miles) north of Mumbai, India's financial hub.
He mentioned that the cause of the fire is being investigated. According to government official Vivekanand Kadam, an explosion in the ICU air conditioning unit preceded the blast.
On Wednesday, the 24th COVID-
An oxygen leak in a hospital in Nashik, another city in Maharashtra state, killed 19 patients on ventilators.
Akhil Gupta was in New Delhi looking for a bed for his 62-year-old mother, Suman. She tested positive on April 2 and was asymptomatic for 10 days. She then developed a fever and began having trouble breathing.
Her other sons, Nikhil and Akhil, rode around the city for two days, visiting every hospital in search of a bed. They went with their mother occasionally, and they went on their own other times. They looked everywhere but came up empty-handed.
They got their mother into the emergency room at the Max Hospital in Patparganj on Friday, where she was briefly placed on oxygen as she waited for a bed to open up inside.
âNow the doctors are requesting that we take her out because they do not have enough oxygen to hold her in the emergency department. But we're not even getting an ambulance with oxygen to take her to another facility,â Akhil Gupta said.
Centre Govt is the only Govt responsible for allocating and distributing oxygen supply in all states of India. If hospitals are running out of oxygen today, have some courage to blame it on Modi. He was too busy in elections to care about your lives.
â Dhruv Rathee ð®ð³ (@dhruv_rathee) April 22, 2021
The family wanted to remain at Max and wait for a bed.
âIs there anything that we can do?â Akhil said.
After converting industrial oxygen production systems into a medical-grade network a year ago, India was able to escape the medical oxygen shortages that afflicted Latin America and Africa.
However, several facilities reverted to providing oxygen to factories, and many Indian states are now experiencing such scarcity that the Health Ministry has advised hospitals to introduce rationing.
The government started construction of new plants to manufacture medical oxygen in October, but it is still uncertain if any have come online six months later, with the Health Ministry stating that they were being âclosely checked for early completion.â
Tanks of oxygen are being shuttled around the country to hotspots to meet demand, and many state governments have said that several of them have been seized and diverted to other states' needs.
On Monday, Ashok Kumar Sharma, 62, was eventually put on oxygen in his West Delhi home. It took days of frantically looking for an oxygen tank at numerous hospitals, pharmacies, and private dealers for it to happen.
âI called at least 60 people searching for oxygen, but everyone's numbers were disconnected,â Kunal, Sharma's son, said.
Kunal's father was diagnosed with pneumonia on April 14 and tested positive for COVID-19 a few days later. The doctors advised that he be placed on oxygen right away. Kunal put out an SOS on social media when he couldn't find any.
âHowever, there is a lot of black marketeering going on. âPeople approached me about selling cylinders for three or four times the original price,â Kunal said. He eventually got one from a personal friend.
âIt's horrifying how people take advantage of our helplessness,â he added.
Everybody gets their turn. It’s what the virus do.
The definition of evil in three sentences.
Nowhere nearly as bad as it is in China. But when almost the entire country aborts their first baby if she's not male, it has an impact.
“What’s the problem? They’ve got millions of people to spare. I know that’s cold but hey.”
Losing half their population (along with Africa) would do them wonders.
Typically a virus weakens as it mutates so either they’re lying or this is the original variant getting worse. On a side note, I have a feeling the white man will be set up to blame because since we’re getting far closer to herd immunity due to the vaccine, they’ll state this is the result of the vaccine causing the virus to be “locked” in India. We will then have to send trillions of dollars because “we’re racists”.
“The definition of evil in three sentences.”
Indias and Africas populations are set to triple by 2100 leading to serious migration issues, water and food problems and war starting over land.
I have zero compassion to people who breed like cockroaches and cause their own troubles.
“Vaccines effective?”
Vaccines work against the variant (preliminary, in vitro)
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/covishield-protects-against-double-mutant-says-ccmb/articleshow/82203498.cms?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm
We are already at herd immunity in most places in the country, but the vaccine did not have much to do with it.
We know the Chinese did this and whether the WuHan Virus biological warfare experiment got out by clumsy negligence or deliberately to infect the non Chinese world, it was pure evil.
They look for viruses that cannot be combatted and stopped. We look for ways to cure people (including in military situations).
The Dems and others cover for the evil that came out of China.
The 100 million who had the virus certainly helped with “herd immunity”, but so do the 200 million vaccinated.
I’m seeing even “super ‘Karen’” medicos admitting the influence of “wild” immunities finally.
Losing your typing fingers would be karma.
How many recent deaths?
I can tell off the top of my head from thees numbers that the story is complete BS. Do we even need to bother to do the math on this one? India has a death-rate of 7.4 per thousand people per year. So that equals 10.36 out of every 1,400. There are 1 million times 1,400 people in India, so 10,360,000 die each year in India divided by 365 equals 28,383 people dying per day. So is there even a measurable increase? And are they now doing the same as they do here and counting loads of death as from Covid which are mostly from other causes?
I believe there’s something strange in India and here’s why. Johns Hopkins, the source everyone uses for Covid data is VERY FISHY. Look at the numbers being reported out of Mainland China, India and the US. The populations of each are 1.44B for China, 1.38B for India and 330M for the US. Quick math says China and India are roughly 4.5x larger than the US by population.
Assuming the US numbers are real, China and India “should” roughly have the number of cases and deaths 4.5x that in the US as worst case. However, Johns Hopkins reports 12.3M cases in India and 30.5M cases in the US. Why is the US significantly higher?
I suggest India, based on 4.5x population of the US could be expected to have roughly (30.5M x 4.5) or 135M cases not 12.3M reported by Johns Hopkins. Deaths are even stranger set of numbers. Johns Hopkins reports 163K deaths in India compared to 500K in the US. Again applying the 4.5x population size difference India’s deaths could be about (500K x 4.5) or 2.2M not 163K. Similar numbers would also apply to China and not those reported by Johns Hopkins.
I believe India is finally reporting reality and/or Johns Hopkins has been suppressing numbers out of India and China for quite a while now. Take your pick as to which and why. The Johns Hopkins numbers I used are about 2 weeks old, but for this example, close enough to make a point.
Just like here in the US, right?
Those are lives and they are randomly chosen.
It’s not like you can just select Democrats or Republicans for the slaughter.
It’s a pretty gross statement you made. Of course assets are acquired when people die, but some of those killed were providing food for others.
WTF?
1.4 billion people? Good Lord.
“Losing your typing fingers would be karma.”
I have zero compassion for peope who keep making the same mistake.
Indias land mass is 3 times smaller than the US and their population is at 1.4 billion and set to go to 2 billion by 2100
If they are so stupid as not know what this leads to they deserve to be culled.
I would love to give credit where credit is due... But the virus has become part of the normal microbial background environment after more than a year. In most parts of the country the vast majority of people have been exposed whether or not they experienced any symptoms or not. And their immune system is already able to fight off Covid. The vaccine and related statistics are mostly made up numbers being used as a placebo to calm the public which has been terrorized by the media and politicians mostly for political reasons. There have not been nearly 200 million people vaccinated. That is an out and out lie. But this thing was too contagious to not establish herd immunity in this time frame.
Disappointed that you went “blah, blah, blah...”
You are the first person I know of to assume the CDC under-reported covid cases.
But each to their own.
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