Delhi hospitals start generating their own oxygen amid acute shortage

Delhi witnessed 448 Covid deaths in the last 24 hours, as per the official figures. This means that 18 people die in the national capital each hour. Hospitals, which are already grappling with the shortage of medical oxygen, have been overwhelmed. Little or no help from the central or Delhi governments has forced a number of hospitals in the national capital to install their own oxygen plants and generators. BLK Super Specialty Hospital and Max Hospitals have procured an oxygen generator and cylinder filling system from France. The hospitals will now install an in-house oxygen generator to tide over the crisis. This oxygen concentrator, which comes along with an oxygen cylinder filling system, will help the hospital with 15 per cent of its total need for oxygen. In addition, it will also fill 50-60 oxygen cylinders.