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oxygen crisis

News Reports

After saying Delhi needs 976 MT oxygen just to meet daily needs, Arvind Kejriwal says he can open 9,500 new oxygen beds with only...

OpIndia Staff - 6 May, 2021

Delhi CM says they will open 9000-9500 new oxygen beds if they get 700 MT oxygen per day, implying the current demand is much less

News Reports

As Covid-19 cases surge in several states, Solicitor General tells SC that other states will suffer if Delhi is supplied more oxygen

OpIndia Staff - 6 May, 2021

The Solicitor General said that the demand of Delhi govt for 700 MT of oxygen per day is not a factually correct position

News Reports

Sugar Mills in UP to generate oxygen and supply directly to hospitals; other directions given by CM Yogi to special COVID team

OpIndia Staff - 6 May, 2021

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Thursday directed the COVID management team to ensure that the oxygen generated by the sugar mills is supplied to the nearest CHC

News Reports

Gujarat: Somnath Temple Trust steps in to help ease the oxygen crisis amid coronavirus pandemic

OpIndia Staff - 6 May, 2021

Shree Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra’ has also announced the setting up of an oxygen plant at an estimated cost of Rs 55 lakh in view of the Coronavirus crisis.

News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Yogi govt to set up oxygen plants in 37 districts, GOI approves

OpIndia Staff - 6 May, 2021

A government spokesperson informed that 4,370 oxygen concentrators have been made available to all districts with each community health centre being equipped with 20 concentrators.

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Tamil Nadu: 13 patients die at Chengalpattu govt hospital in one night, oxygen shortage alleged

OpIndia Staff - 6 May, 2021

The hospital authorities have contended that the deaths were not due to a shortfall of lifesaving medical oxygen. Chengalpattu district collector A John Louis denied reports that the deaths were due to oxygen shortage.

News Reports

Aam Aadmi Party’s Raghav Chadha defies logic while giving calculations on cryogenic tanks and medical oxygen

Nirwa Mehta - 6 May, 2021

One feels that if Aam Aadmi Party leaders focus on resolving the oxygen crisis instead of overusing their tiny brain for absurd calculations, they could perhaps save a few lives.

News Reports

‘Over 9000 tonnes of medical oxygen being produced per day, capacity increased 300%’: INOX chief

OpIndia Staff - 5 May, 2021

The excess demand for medical oxygen was unprecedented as even during the peak of the first COVID-19 wave in India, maximum demand was not more than 3,000 tonnes a day, the report said.

OpIndia Scoops

Banned Khalistani outfit Sikhs For Justice mints misery of Covid patients, promises cash and oxygen

OpIndia Staff - 4 May, 2021

SFJ has tried to lure Covid-19 patients to join the organization in return of money for treatment

Social Media Fact-Check

Are 3,000 oxygen concentrators stuck in Customs as per viral social media claims? Here are the facts

OpIndia Staff - 4 May, 2021

The image shared by NDTV purported to be of the said oxygen concentrators was actually of the 300 oxygen concentrators received from Hong Kong which are already cleared.

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