Delhi hospitals on alert as COVID cases continue upward trend; helpline number issued
India | April 16, 2022 7:18 ISTDelhi recorded 366 COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours with a positivity rate of nearly four per cent (3.95 per cent).
Delhi recorded 366 COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours with a positivity rate of nearly four per cent (3.95 per cent).
Delhi has reported over 1,000 cases of dengue this year, with more than 280 cases logged in the last week, according to a civic report released on Monday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday visited the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital here to express gratitude to doctors, nurses and others who helped India cross the 100 crore Covid-19 vaccination-mark.
On April 20, Delhi had reported 28,395 cases, the highest in the city since the beginning of the pandemic.
In a letter to the medical director of the hospital on Monday, the nursing superintendent explained the reasons behind issuing the circular and said it was issued in "a positive sense and there was no bad intention against Malayalam-speaking staff".
The decision was taken at a board meeting chaired by Lt Governor Anil Baijal, who is also the DDA Chairman, said a senior DDA official.
The medical director of the Delhi government-run G B Pant hospital on Sunday said they have revoked a controversial order issued a day earlier, asking its nursing staff not to converse in Malayalam.
The circular issued by the Govind Ballabh Pant Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (GIPMER), one of the leading facilities here, has asked its nurses to use only Hindi and English for communication or face "strict action".
Delhi recorded less than 200 hospital admissions of COVID-19 patients on Monday, the lowest in nearly two months, according to government data.
Twenty-five COVID-19 patients at the high-profile Sir Ganga Ram Hospital had died last week. Sources said, "low-pressure oxygen" could be the likely cause of the deaths. Officials at Fortis Healthcare said the situation is stable now and admissions are on.
In the midst of the Corona crisis, the family members of patients outside LNJP Hospital in Delhi are in a bad condition. There is a huge shortage of beds in the hospital.
Delhi logged 24,331 fresh COVID-19 cases and a record single-day jump of 348 deaths on Friday while the positivity rate stood at 32.43 per cent, according to the latest health bulletin.
Hospitals in Delhi-NCR had to issue appeals all through Thursday for their oxygen stock to be replenished with the lives of their Covid patients hanging in the balance.
Amid a flood of complaints regarding oxygen shortage in hospitals, the DDMA has appointed two nodal officers to ensure oxygen supply in Delhi hospitals
On inquiry from Hospital management and Nodal officer GNCTD, it was revealed that one tanker is supposed to come from Panipat and another from Modi Nagar but they are not getting any update.
Delhi recorded 24,638 fresh COVID-19 cases and 249 deaths due to the viral disease on Wednesday while the positivity rate stood at 31.28 per cent, meaning almost every third sample tested positive, amid a growing clamour for oxygen and hospital beds in the city.
On Tuesday, CM Kejriwal had urged the Centre "with folded hands" to provide medical oxygen to Delhi and his deputy Manish Sisodia said there will be chaos in the city if the stocks are not replenished by Wednesday morning.
After Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain stated on Tuesday that Delhi’s GTB Hospital was running out of medical oxygen, one oxygen tanker reached the hospital just in time at 1:30 am on Wednesday. More than 500 critical Covid-19 patients on oxygen were admitted at the hospital and the supply was not expected to last beyond 2 am.
COVID-19: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal has said that the city is facing acute shortage of oxygen supply and urged the Centre to increase the city's quota.
After an exponential rise of Covid cases over the last few weeks, the Arvind Kejriwal government is looking at steps to increase the number of hospital beds and for that matter has turned Commonwealth Games Village into a COVID facility.
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