A court in New Delhi says it will now start punishing government officials for failing to deliver hospitals with a steady supply of oxygen. 9News
patients dying amid the shortages, a court in New Delhi said it would start punishing government officials for failing to deliver the life-saving items.
The government has been using the railroad, the air force and the navy to rush oxygen tankers to worst-hit areas where overwhelmed hospitals are unable to cope with an unprecedented surge in patients gasping for air., including a doctor, on high-flow oxygen, died on Saturday at a hospital in New Delhi after it ran out of the supply for 80 minutes, said SCL Gupta, director of Batra Hospital.
With the government unable to maintain a steady supply of oxygen, several hospital authorities sought a court intervention in the Indian capital where a lockdown has been extended by a week to contain the wave of infections.
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