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.
Yes, I was surprised when India seemed to be doing well earlier in the pandemic. The sheer number of people and the rate of poverty there, make Covid especially difficult to contain.
You either have severe reading comprehension issues or are intentionally misinterpreting what I stated clearly. We have already reached herd immunity in most parts of the country... is that more “blah, blah, blah...” to you?
Just curious but are they burning the bodies on the ghat or just tossing them in the rivers to float away.
I call BS. O2 is the easiest gas to produce and is produced in massive quantities.
wouldn’t surprise me about India...all these waves of virus are not by accident....
https://twitter.com/AsianetNewsEN/status/1385651492800012288
“Eight empty cryogenic oxygen tanks airlifted from Begumpet to Bhubaneswar using
@IAF_MCC
C17 aircraft to bring back oxygen from the plants in Odisha for use in Covid-19 treatment in the state of Telangana.”
Seems the problem is getting the O2 to where it’s suddenly needed quickly.
Pakistan has offered 50 ambulances... that’s interesting.
Clearly.
Your promotion of genocide is revolting.
‘It almost makes you think it’s something else, intentional sabotage or a different virus altogether.’
the most victimized entity from covid has been the truth...
‘We are already at herd immunity in most places in the country, but the vaccine did not have much to do with it.’
supporting data...?
In the long run, I have more hope for the antiviral treatments than the vaccines. And when viruses are very treatable in the early stages, avoiding severe illness and hospitalization, the fear and stigma of “catching the virus” is massively reduced, reducing the ability of governments to force 100% of societies into vaccines.
Half or more of the population never gets the flu vaccine. I never have and never had a severe flu illness. We all can get the flu any year. When we do, for most people it is very treatable.
Two categories of folks most vulnerable to the flu - young children and older folks with long term systemic problems involving heart, lungs, diabetes or obesity are those who are encouraged the most and who mostly do participate in the flu vaccine. It will become the same with the Wuhan Virus in time. It will be treatable in most cases and the most vulnerable will be encouraged to, and will, take the vaccine.
Glad you asked...? Just skip to the end if you want to go straight to a linked article on herd immunity from Reason Magazine.
You almost have to be willfully ignorant to go along with the leftist narrative these days. The "supporting data" is even being provided by the same sources that have been terrorizing the public for over a year now. But the language being used is being distorted in new and creative ways to make good news seem like bad news.
One has to be a fool not to be skeptical of all numbers about Covid given the abysmal quality of data provided by the record keepers... but even these numbers are now beginning to support the conclusion that most places have achieved effective “herd immunity.
The terminology used by authorities and the media is almost comical in its obvious intent to mislead. These days “new cases” refers mostly to asymptomatic people who have tested positive when being admitted to the hospital for other complaints, needed a test for travel to Hawaii or foreign locations, for various jobs and also to get life insurance, etc... etc... The PCR tests are so sensitive that they pick up many who have just a normal background level of Covid particulate and the majority of positives never get sick or become contagious but most do manage to have an immune response that results in at least some level of immunity. So "new cases" is actually good news not bad.
The “hospitalization rate” is just as misleading, the vast majority are people who went to the hospital for another reason but had a positive result when admitted. And of the “death rate” has been shown to be a complete sham from the beginning. Even my own brother-in-law who was on hospice care for a cancerous brain tumor was counted as a “presumptive covid death”. He died early in the “pandemic” at at time when tests were not available for anyone other than politicians and celebrities. But labling his a "presumptive covid death" was not nearly as deceptive as the large number of people who died from things like automobile accidents, gun shot wounds, stabbings, blunt trauma, etc... and were also called "presumptive covid deaths".
This entire exercise has seen pioneering new ways to mislead, and keep the public alarmed. Even in its final stages we have new and disturbing measures being introduced by those who have no intention of giving up the power and compliance that they have seized over the past year. It is incredible!
The following article is from March 17 and written in a way that enabled it to get past the almost complete media and big tech black out on any perspective that does not fit the leftist narrative. It is now being reported by numerous sources that at least 100 million people and probably far more have developed antibodies independent of the vaccine and according to these same and other sources close to 200 million have received at least the first shot in one of the regimens.
https://reason.com/2021/03/17/how-far-are-we-from-covid-19-herd-immunity/
Every day approx 26,000 people die in India and every day 67,385 babies are born in India.
The average Indian home has 6 people living per room.
I have zero compassion for stupid societies. This is no longer 20,000 B.C.
Africa’s poulation is going to triple by 2100.
Do you really think they are going to stay in Africa?
Goodbye Europe.
Manufacturing O2 isn’t that difficult. They must have storage problems. O2 is common in many industrial applications of which India has plenty.
Africa cannot feed itself. They are totally dependent on the US and other parts go the world for food. If we are going into a period of Global Cooling, then the growing seasons will be shorter and there will not be the surplus of food we have now.
What will happen to to Africa, China, and India when they can’t feed their people?
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