Health
Do the States have any responsibility ?
A SURYA PRAKASH
Several COVID patients have tragically died , either due to the depletion in oxygen supply at hospitals or for other reasons , across 14 States
The death of patients due to depletion of oxygen in some hospitals in Delhi and in many other States in the past weeks along with the shortage of beds and drugs for COVID-19 patients has shaken the nation ’ s conscience . Apart from Delhi , dreadful stories of criminal negligence and utter incompetence , leading to the death of COVID patients due to oxygen shortage , are surfacing from many States .
In Karnataka , 24 COVID patients lost their lives on May 2
22 Legacy India | June 2021 and 3 when the district hospital in Chamarajanagara ran out of oxygen . A three-member committee appointed by the High Court indicted the district administration and the hospital authorities for their failure to supervise the crisis and said the oxygen shortage was the result of callousness at various levels .
Reports from Goa were equally grim as over 80 patients in the Goa Medical College and Hospital reportedly lost their lives because the hospital ran out of oxygen . While the hospital authorities claim not all of these cases can be linked to depletion of oxygen , one hears that this institution had a very primitive system of oxygen supply and insufficient storage capacity . The Goa Bench of the Bombay High Court also had to step in and press for speedy action to resolve the logistics issues .
In Haryana , such deaths were reported in hospitals in Gurugram , Rewari and Hisar while the cities in Maharashtra that were hit by oxygen
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