The number of death from coronavirus and infections in India has made new world records. The government struggled to bring oxygen supplies to hospitals overwhelmed by the hundreds of thousands. Of new daily cases.
Authorities rushed on Saturday to supply medical oxygen to Indian hospitals where COVID-19 patients were suffocating amid supply shortages.
The tragedy occurred at the end of a week in which 5 patients died in the hospital in Amritsar’s Neelkanth Hospital.
Amritsar | Five patients have died at the hospital. We are facing an oxygen shortage for the last 48 hours. The administration is saying that oxygen will not be given to private hospitals before government hospitals: MD, Neelkanth Hospital pic.twitter.com/c4GNeMn86m
— ANI (@ANI) April 24, 2021
As per the ANI report, The Health Minister said that a committee has been constituted by the District Administration to ensure the scrutiny of the incident.
Amritsar's Neelkanth Hospital authorities should have brought the matter of oxygen shortage to the notice of the Administration. An inquiry committee has been set up to investigate the matter: Punjab Minister OP Soni pic.twitter.com/GgzNwZhljB
— ANI (@ANI) April 24, 2021
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