New Delhi: As many as eight Covid patients, including the HoD of the gastroenterology department, of Batra Hospital died due to oxygen shortage, officials said on Saturday.
Asked whether the deaths took place when the low oxygen supply in the ICU had dropped, Dr SCL Gupta, the hospital’s medical director, told The Indian Express: “Of course… If the hospital will run without oxygen for half an hour… Eight Covid patients have been declared dead so far… There are five others who are in the process of resuscitation. They are critical.”
Eight COVID-19 patients die due to oxygen shortage at Batra Hospital in Delhi: Official
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Hospitals across the national capital had sent out SOS messages last week about depleting supplies of oxygen.
