Bengaluru Hospitals Send Out Appeals For Help As Oxygen Crisis Deepens

On Monday, at least three hospitals indicated that they were short of oxygen - two of them eventually received the supply.

Several hospitals in Bengaluru have been sending out appeals for oxygen, some of them even asking patients, who have already been admitted, to find a bed elsewhere as they are running out of the life-giving gas. A steep rise in cases in B'luru has resulted in increased hospitalisation of #Covid patients. We seek your support as we aim to upgrade the public health infrastructure & manage them. Immensely grateful for your support in this effort till now. #WeShallFightCovid19#StayStrongpic.twitter.com/MkMTtyJLDG On Monday, at least three hospitals indicated that they were short of oxygen - two of them eventually received the supply. But two deaths at Arka Hospital in the city's Yelahanka were reported to be due to a drop in the oxygen supply. Officials, however, said they were still waiting for a report on the deaths. The development comes close on the heels of the deaths of 23 COVID-19 patients over the course of less than a day in the state's Chamarajanagar district with at least some of the deaths being attributed to shortage of oxygen in the district hospital. The state government says meeting oxygen demand is a huge challenge, while also putting some onus on the hospitals for the shortage.