“If You Have Oxygen To Spare”: Arvind Kejriwal Appeals To Chief Ministers

New Delhi:

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has despatched out an SOS to all chief ministers amid a crippling scarcity of medical oxygen triggered by the huge coronavirus surge. He mentioned he was writing to his counterparts looking for assist to resolve the disaster by diverting spare oxygen to the nationwide capital.

“I’m writing to all CMs requesting them to supply oxygen to Delhi, if they’ve spare. Although the Central govt. can be serving to us, the severity of corona is such that every one accessible sources are proving insufficient,” he tweeted.

I’m writing to all CMs requesting them to supply oxygen to Delhi, if they’ve spare. Although Central govt. can be serving to us, the severity of corona is such that every one accessible sources are proving insufficient.

— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) April 24, 2021

Delhi, at the moment the worst-hit metropolis, has been reporting over 20,000 each day Covid instances for the previous couple of days. On Friday, it recorded the highest-ever 348 deaths in a day.

Delhi’s over 90,000 lively instances are exerting super strain on its well being infrastructure. Acute shortages of medical oxygen, medicines and intensive care beds have been reported within the metropolis.  

A number of huge and small hospitals treating Covid sufferers in Delhi have mentioned their oxygen provides are working dangerously low.

A hospital in Delhi right this moment witnessed 25 deaths inside a number of hours due to the scarcity of oxygen.

“We had been allotted 3.5 metric tonnes of oxygen from the federal government. The provision was to achieve us by 5 within the night, however it reached round midnight. By then, 25 sufferers had died,” Dr DK Baluja, Medical Director at Jaipur Golden Hospital, instructed NDTV.

The centre had final week elevated Delhi’s oxygen quota to 480 metric tonnes. The Delhi authorities right this moment instructed the Excessive Court docket that the medical system within the nationwide capital would collapse if it did not obtain the promised quantity of the live-saving gasoline.

Earlier this week, the courtroom had directed the centre to supply the required quantity of oxygen to Delhi. “Beg, borrow or steal,” the judges had mentioned, warning that “all hell would break unfastened” if hospitals ran out of oxygen.

In a gathering of chief ministers with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, Mr Kejriwal had warned {that a} “huge tragedy” may occur due to the oxygen scarcity. He had additionally mentioned that some states had been stopping tankers carrying oxygen to Delhi.

“Persons are in main ache attributable to oxygen scarcity. We concern an enormous tragedy could occur attributable to oxygen scarcity and we are going to by no means have the ability to forgive ourselves. I request you with folded fingers to direct all Chief Ministers to make sure clean motion of oxygen tankers coming to Delhi,” Mr Kejriwal mentioned.

PM Modi later appealed to all states to battle the pandemic collectively. He additionally mentioned no states ought to cease oxygen provide meant for different states.