Superintendent of Bihar’s COVID-19 dedicated hospital writes to govt. to relieve him due to lack of oxygen supply
The Hindu
NMCH Superintendent Vinod Kumar Singh wrote in a letter ‘despite my several reminders, the hospital is not being provided adequate oxygen supply which has put lives of dozens of patients in danger’.
A senior doctor and Superintendent of Bihar’s COVID-19 dedicated Nalanda Medical College and Hospital (NMCH) has written to the government to relieve him from the post due to lack of oxygen supply in the hospital which has put the lives of dozens of patients in danger. After an all-party meeting with the Governor on Saturday, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is scheduled to hold discussions with District Magistrates and top officials on Sunday in view of the surge in the pandemic cases. Bihar has been suffering a huge shortage of oxygen cylinders and Remdesivir medicine (an anti-viral drug) for the last one week and the government has claimed it was taking steps for the smooth and urgent supply of both in hospitals. The Patna district administration has also been procuring extra oxygen cylinders from neighbouring districts.
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