AAP govt was slammed in a review chaired by P.K. Mishra, principal secretary to PM, which was attended by Delhi Chief Secretary Vijay Dev and other officials of both govts.
Getting tested in Delhi has become more difficult than ever before over the past few weeks, with people trying to book slots for themselves but failing later in getting an appointment.
Three days after his coronavirus symptoms appeared, Rajendra Karan struggled to breathe. Instead of waiting for an ambulance, his son drove him to a government hospital in Lucknow, the capital of India's largest state of Uttar Pradesh. But the hospital wouldn't let him in without a registration slip from the district's chief medical officer. By the time the son got it, his father had died in the car, just outside the hospital doors.
"This is wrong. This is a complete non-application of mind. Now people who do not have oxygen will not get Remdesivir either. It appears you want people to die," Justice Prathiba M Singh said to the central government.
Satya Prakash
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, April 28
The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the Uttar Pradesh government to shift ailing Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan from a hospital in Mathu
Additional DCP (north-west) Guriqbal Singh Singh Sidhu told The Indian Express that they have arrested the accused, Mayank Singh, a second year student of Maharaja Agrasen College.
The Delhi Police are assisting citizens during the prevailing COVID pandemic in the country by providing food, assisting in Oxygen transportation and in several other ways by providing food to hungry families.
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India News: NEW DELHI: The ministry of home affairs has blamed the oxygen crisis in Delhi, in spite of the Centre having allocated it 480 MT on April 21, on the s.
Two people were arrested from west Delhi's Punjabi Bagh for alleged black-marketing of oxygen cylinders, police said on Wednesday, amid heightened demand for the live-saving gas due to surging coronavirus cases in the city.
At his crowded emergency room in central Delhi, Ali Raza can't focus much on when the next delivery of oxygen will arrive -- 12 of his 20 doctors are down with Covid-19, and the patients just keep coming.
Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij debunked all the questions rising on the shortage of beds for Covid patients in Gurugram and Faridabad districts. He claimed that about 70% of the patients in both the districts are from Delhi.
Under the clutches of the Covid-19 pandemic, Delhi is struggling to fix the shortage of oxygen supply amid rising coronavirus cases. Meanwhile, testing and vaccination figures have dropped by 50 per cent in Delhi as compared to the figures 15 days ago. However, the reason for the drop is not yet unknown.
