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Cops provide green corridor, pick and drop oxygen cylinders too

New Delhi: With various hospitals in the city facing an oxygen crisis, Delhi Police has turned out to be their SOS number. Since Tuesday night, at least five hospitals were supplied oxygen cylinders, with the cops even creating green corridors for their fast and free movement. A green corridor was created after an oxygen tanker that was scheduled to reach Jaipur Golden Hospital got stuck in Haryana near the Singhu border. Another corridor was created for Santom Hospital in Rohini. Its medical superintendent called the SHO Prashant Vihar to tell him that the facility had a critically low level of oxygen supply, which might put life of 130 patients at risk. “Various vendors dealing in oxygen cylinders were contacted and cylinders were arranged from Rithala within an hour,” Rohini DCP Pranav Tayal said. A green corridor was also provided by the Prashant Vihar police station to the ambulance carrying the cylinders, he added. In Dwarka, Akash Hospital also got oxygen cylinders after police were informed that its supply might not last long. Inspector Surender Sandhu, station house officer (SHO) of Dabri, and a team collected empty cylinders and looked for oxygen at Wazirpur Oxygen Gas Godown and Jeevan Park in Dabri, but couldn’t get any due to shortage of supply. But they managed to arrange 37 cylinders from Mayapuri Oxygen Plant and took it to the hospital. The cylinders were taken immediately to the ICU ward. “We have provided our mobile numbers to the hospital doctors for any such need in future,” said Dwarka DCP Santosh Meena. In Shahdara, senior officials of ESI Hospital Jhilmil contacted the SHO Vivek Vihar as the oxygen supply was running short for its 52 Covid beds. Oxygen was supposed to reach the hospital at 10pm on Tuesday night, but didn’t till 4pm on Wednesday as the driver of the vehicle carrying the supply went on a wrong route. With the supply left for just one-two hours, the SHO managed to get oxygen within an hour. Both Holy Family and Jeevan hospitals also faced the same problem. Without wasting a minute, the staff members of Jangpura police station arranged 10 oxygen cylinders for Holi Family and five for Jeevan hospitals, respectively. Another hospital in Janakpuri was also provided oxygen cylinders.

The Times of India

2021-04-22

Delhi