Summary:
New Delhi: In the past five days, 25 flights loaded with 300 tonnes of emergency Covid-19 relief supplies have landed in India’s capital from around the world.
The supplies include 5,500 oxygen concentrators, 3,200 oxygen cylinders and 1,36,000 remdesivir injections, said a spokesperson of the Delhi International Airport Limited.
The emergency aid could save lives.
But it seems not to have reached even those who are gasping for oxygen a few km away.
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New Delhi: In the past five days, 25 flights loaded with 300 tonnes of emergency Covid-19 relief supplies have landed in India’s capital from around the world.
The supplies include 5,500 oxygen concentrators, 3,200 oxygen cylinders and 1,36,000 remdesivir injections, said a spokesperson of the Delhi International Airport Limited.
The emergency aid could save lives.
But it seems not to have reached even those who are gasping for oxygen a few km away.
As far as I know, we have not received anything so far,” said Dr Nutan Mundeja, Director General of Health Services, Delhi government.
Delhi, which has nearly 100,000 active Covid-19 cases and 20,000 patients in hospital, is facing a crippling shortage of oxygen.
On May 1, 12 patients, including a doctor, died in Batra Hospital after it ran out of the life-saving gas.