New Delhi: Health Minister Delhi Satyendar Jain on Wednesday said there had been many deaths because of lack of oxygen in Delhi and other places throughout the country and it was “really wrong” to say no one died because of the desire of life-saving gas.
“If there is no death that occurs due to lack of oxygen, why does the hospital move the High Court one by one? The hospital has said that the lack of oxygen causes death.
The media also marks this problem every day,” Jain told reporters here.
“Television channels and newspapers report how the hospital runs out of oxygen.
This is truly a wrong ad wrong to say that no one died because of lack of oxygen,” he said.
“There are many deaths due to lack of oxygen in Delhi and many other places throughout the country.
It was really sad and unfortunate,” Jain said.
The minister said the center did not request data related to such death but the city government has tried to ensure its own number by establishing a panel.
“The Delhi government has established a committee to collect data on such deaths and provide compensation for RS Lima Lakh to families who die.
But the center made the panel dissolved through the Governor of Lieutenant,” he thought.
“Others, we will get the right data about how many people die of lack of oxygen in Delhi …
I think the center disperses the panel so they can say no one dies because of the oxygen crisis,” Minister said.
“This center rubs salt into those wounds that have lost their loved ones …
Tomorrow, they will say there is no death because of Covid-19,” he added.
Delhi fostered acute oxygen shortages for about two weeks in April and May, because hospitals in the capital sent SOS calls who were desperate to the authorities to refill their shares.
Some private health care facilities even asked the government to shift their patients.
On April 23, around 20 Covid-19 patients who had critical pain had died at the Golden Jaipur hospital in Northwest Delhi due to lack of oxygen.
The Batra Hospital in the institutional area of Tuxlakabad lost eight lives due to lack of oxygen in 1.
The central government on Tuesday told Rajya Sabha that there was no death due to lack of oxygen specifically reported by the state and UTS during the second Covid-19 wave.
But there were unprecedented waves in demand for medical oxygen during the second wave and peaked at almost 9,000 MT compared to 3,095 MT in the first wave after the center had to step up to facilitate a fair distribution among the countries, he said.
In a statement issued on Tuesday, Deputy Chairman of Delhi Minister Manish Sisodia said there was a lack of medical oxygen during the peak of the second Covid-19 wave.
“The central government has carried out a cover since the beginning of the pandemic.
It was because their disabled policies and implementation that the country had to bear the oxygen crisis during the toughest phase of the pandemic,” he said.
The Delhi government “wants to explain the reasons behind death” during a pandemic, and has formed a ‘death audit committee’ to work towards the end, said Sisodia.
The central government, however, did not want “their Fallacies was launched so they did not let us go with the committee when they knew what the truth would come out in the open”, he accused.
Lack of oxygen: Jain replies to the central claims
