About 6,650 metric tonne (MT) oxygen is being supplied by steel plants and oil refineries to healthcare centres across the country for the treatment of COVID-19 patients, Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Sunday. In a series of tweets, Pradhan, who handles the portfolios of petroleum and natural gas, and steel, said the domestic steel … Read more
The Union Government would have to take decision on recommendations of the task force, which has to start working immediately and would continue for a period of six months. The Task Force is supposed to take up and determine the “pressing issue” of the modalities of oxygen within a week. The Supreme Court has set … Read more
A day after the Allahabad High Court observed that the death of COVID-19 patients due to non supply of oxygen to hospitals is a criminal act, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday said the Uttar Pradesh government has continuously denied the lack of oxygen when the truth is that there have been many deaths … Read more
Family members could not contain their tears as well as anger as they mourned the death of their kin following the disruption of oxygen supply at the Zakir Husain municipal hospital here. Some of the 22 COVID-19 patients who died in the tragedy were recovering and about to get discharge, their relatives told mediapersons. As … Read more
Maharashtra is facing a shortage of oxygen for COVID-19 patients. Coronavirus cases in Maharashtra have been surging ever since the pandemic broke out in the country. After six months, the state has become the first one in India to have surpassed COVID-19 cases beyond the 1-million mark. As many as 1,015,681 cases have been confirmed … Read more
NEW DELHI: A day after Maharashtra stopped supplying medical-grade oxygen to other states, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan reached out to his Maharashtra counterpart, urging him to restore supply for hospitals treating severely ill patients. On Wednesday, Maharashtra principal health secretary Pradeep Kumar Vyas had issued an order which said oxygen produced in … Read more