Astha Saxena

People who get infected with Covid-19 even after getting a vaccine shot are known as “breakthrough cases”, implying that the infection has broken through the protection provided by the vaccine.

With the Covid vaccination drive now open for those aged 18 and above, some over 45 who had got their first shot a month ago have said they are struggling to find slots for the second dose, particularly Covishield.

The order was issued after there was a delay by the hospitals in updating the app, causing trouble to the patients.

With most Covid patients depending on oxygen therapy, the need for an uninterrupted oxygen supply has increased in hospitals.

The Indian Express spoke to four hospitals in the city that confirmed there has been a drop in the allocated oxygen supply.

In the second such incident in the national capital this month, 12 Covid patients, including a senior doctor, died in Batra Hospital in South Delhi on Saturday after the private facility ran out of oxygen supply between 12.15 pm and 1.35 pm, doctors and officials said.

With an experience of 33 years in this field, Dr Himthani joined Batra hospital when the administration was planning to start the department.

The hospital raised an alarm on Saturday afternoon over depleting levels of oxygen supply. Around 12.30 pm, the hospital claimed it had run out of liquid medical oxygen supply.

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Jaipur Golden hospital in northwest Delhi, where recently 20 people had died due to low oxygen supply, has sent out a SOS alert on the social media about the depleting oxygen levels.

On Sunday, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia requested hospitals in the city not to raise alarms unnecessarily over oxygen shortage and appealed to the media to verify claims before reporting.

From arranging a Remdevisir injection to getting a hospital bed for a Covid-19 patient, Srinivas and a team of 1,000 volunteers in every state have been helping people who approach them since March.

On Saturday morning, two hospitals in Delhi — Saroj Super Speciality and Batra Hospital & Medical Research Centre — raised an alarm over their oxygen tanks running dry.

Hospital’s medical superintendent says: "A normal patient would have coped; those with high requirements couldn't cope with the deficiency."

Hospitals put out SOSes on social media platforms, restricted new admissions, and reduced the number of beds, as they fought the shortage of medical oxygen for patients sick with Covid-19.

Alarm bells rang ceaselessly as supply of oxygen to hospitals in the capital remained severely constrained for the fourth straight day on Friday.

Around 28 hospitals, both Delhi government-run and private, raised an alarm over scarcity of oxygen supply as they struggled to manage patients with just oxygen cylinders.

While many top private hospitals had spoken of depleting oxygen levels on Wednesday, the next line of hospitals with relatively lesser numbers of Covid-19 patients have now also started to face the heat.

Top private hospitals in Delhi like Max, Fortis, Apollo, and Sir Ganga Ram reached out to the Delhi government regarding depleting oxygen supplies.

The crisis began to unfold after many hospitals complained that Linde India Limited, which supplies oxygen to Delhi from its plant in Faridabad, has been stopped by the Haryana government from supplying outside the state.

The shortage of oxygen was raised by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday. Calling it a "serious oxygen crisis", the CM urged the Centre to immediately provide oxygen to the city.

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According to sources in the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) all possible efforts are being made to smoothen the supply lines.

If at all implemented, this will be the first hospital in Delhi to cancel elective surgeries owing to the shortage of oxygen in the hospital.