Oxygen Express: Indian Railways brings oxygen relief to 15 states in 50 days
India | June 13, 2021 17:28 ISTOxygen relief by 421 Oxygen Expresses reached to 15 states namely Uttarakhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra and others.
Oxygen relief by 421 Oxygen Expresses reached to 15 states namely Uttarakhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra and others.
Considering increase in demand for medical oxygen in different parts of the country during the second wave of the Covid-19, India has started 'Project O2' to augment the country's ability to meet this rise in demand of medical oxygen.
2 persons hailing from Punjab's Ludhiana were arrested after the seizure of cannabis worth Rs 1.1 crore from the vehicle, an officer said.
The plants were inaugurated on Saturday, in a virtual ceremony, in the presence of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Health Minister Satyendar Jain, and Roshni Nadar Malhotra, Chairperson of HCL Technologies.
Union Minister Smriti Irani on Saturday inaugurated an oxygen production plant at the district hospital in Amethi, her parliamentary constituency, officials said.
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal inspected the construction of 57 tonnes oxygen storage tank near Siraspur on June 10.
Bollywood actor cum social worker Sonu Sood, who has been in limelight for his philanthropic mission, has promised to install oxygen plants.
Delhi faced an acute shortage of oxygen during the second wave surge in April and May, with some COVID patients dying at two hospitals in the city due to the scarcity of life-saving gas.
"To cater to the requirements of oxygen supply for multiple patients during the ongoing COVID pandemic, Tukroo PHC in Shopian district becomes the first in J&K to get multi-feed OMS technology," an official spokesman said.
Sonu Sood has promised to set up as many as 18 oxygen plants across various states of India. The 47-year-old actor is starting this noble deed from Kurnool and Nellore in Andhra Pradesh and Mangalore in Karnataka.
Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited (DFCCIL) under the CSR initiative has set up an oxygen generation plant with a capacity of 500 liters per minute (LPM) at Northern Railway Central Hospital in New Delhi.
Agra District Magistrate Prabhu N Singh on June 08 informed that an FIR has been registered against Paras Hospital owner after his video on alleged 'oxygen cut mock-drill' went viral.
Actor and BJP MP Hema Malini has appreciated Bollywood actor Vivek Anand Oberoi, who has been consistent with his humanitarian work over the years, for his initiative 'I Am Oxygen Man'. Hema thanked Vivek for the initiative, through which Vivek has been helping people get oxygen cylinders
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.
District authorities in Agra have ordered a probe after a video of owner of a private hospital surfaced in which he claimed to have cut off the oxygen supply of patients.
A prominent private hospital in Uttar Pradesh's Agra was closed by authorities on Tuesday after its owner was allegedly caught on audio bragging about how the hospital shut off oxygen supply on April 27 for five minutes in a "mock drill" amid what the owner purportedly claimed was an acute shortage of oxygen at his hospital during a raging Covid surge in the western UP town, and elsewhere in the state.
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Agra's Paras hospital will be sealed following the reported death of 22 patients allegedly due to shortage of oxygen. The matter highlighting the hospital's lapse came to light after a video to this effect surfaced.
A video purportedly of a director of a private nursing home in Agra claiming several Covid patients died as a result of a mock exercise that allegedly cut off medical oxygen supply, has gone viral.
At least seven patients, including COVID infected, died in a private hospital due to alleged oxygen shortage on April 26 and 27.stead of the usual 6-digit verification code.
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