India / Goa Oxygen Shortage 74 Deaths Due To Lack Of Oxygen Supply In The Biggest Medical Facility

Goa: In Goa's largest medical facility Goa Medical College and Hospital, 74 patients have died in the last 4 days. It is known that all these deaths are allegedly due to lack of medical oxygen. Please tell that on Thursday night alone, 13 patients died due to oxygen supply stop in hospitals of Goa. This negligence has happened when the High Court had on Thursday warned the state government about the oxygen crisis.

Actually, it was told by the state government that there is no lack of oxygen, but there is a lack of logistics for refilling. On this, the court had made a strong comment that 'we cannot leave people to die due to technical and logistic issues, fix whatever the problem is and take care that there is no death due to lack of oxygen tonight . Despite this, the death of 13 patients on the same night raises questions on the government.

Court has asked for a status report

The court has asked the hospitals and the state administration to file a status report by 7 pm today. In this, information has to be given about the availability of oxygen supplies, tanks, concentrators and drivers. Let us know that the positivity rate in Goa is now 48.1%, which means that every other test is going out of Kovid positive here.

Former Goa Chief Minister Vijay Sardesai said that 13 people died between 1 pm and 6 am on Friday, 15 on Thursday morning, 20 on Wednesday and 26 on Tuesday between 2 pm and 6 am. is. Chief Minister Pramod Sawant also visited the hospital this week. He said that 'due to the gap between the availability of medical oxygen and the supply, some problems may have arisen.'

Goa's principal secretary has written a letter to the Center asking for more supplies

The Chief Minister has demanded an inquiry from the High Court. The High Court is already hearing several petitions regarding the management of the epidemic. CM has stressed that there is no dearth of oxygen supply in the state. However, in a letter sent by Goa Principal Secretary PK Goel to the Central Government, this assertion is contradicted. According to news agency PTI, Goyal has said that between May 1 and 10, Goa was able to get only 66.7 metric tons of oxygen, while 110 metric tons of oxygen were allotted to Goa from Kolhapur in Maharashtra. Kolhapur is currently supplying 40% of the total medical oxygen to Goa.