Covid care at Home

Owing to shortage of availability of beds in the city, Covid patients often are left with no option but to opt for home isolation packages  As on April 26, there are 52,733 people with Covid-19 in home isolation in Delhi. The city reported 20,201 cases in the last 24 hours, it has in fact seen […]

As second Covid-19 wave hits India, the ‘unsung heroes’ comes into rescue

From NGOs to social media influencers – these good samaritans have been working day and night to fight the Covid crisis in the Capital city “We are not giving or refilling oxygen cylinders. We are asking people to come here at the Indirapuram Gurudwara along with the patient in their car and we will provide […]

Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi receives 64 refilled oxygen cylinders: Official

Delhi’s Sir Ganga Ram Hospital on Monday evening received 64 refilled oxygen cylinders, which are used while transporting critically ill COVID patients, after waiting for three days, officials said. Earlier, hospital sources had said that it was on beg and borrow mode. The SGRH has just received 64 refilled oxygen cylinders, an official of the […]

Free COVID-19 vaccine in Delhi to all above 18: CM Kejriwal

The Delhi government will provide free COVID-19 vaccines to all those above 18 years of age in the city for which purchase of 1.34 crore doses has been approved, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Monday. The government will make efforts to speed up vaccine purchase and administering it to the people, he said in […]

COVID-19 situation in Delhi precarious; Centre to ensure oxygen supply to hospitals: HC

The Delhi High Court Thursday observed that the COVID-19 situation in the national capital has turned precarious with many hospitals running out of oxygen and directed the Centre to ensure the gas is supplied to the city as per the planned allocation and without any hindrances. “As it stands, we all know that this country […]

The Testing times of Covid

In the Capital city, even getting a Covid test done is difficult, as private labs have pendency of five days and are inundated by test demands Arvind Kejriwal while announcing the lockdown for a week in the unprecedented daily rise in Covid-19 cases in Delhi, and the rest of the country, said, that in Delhi […]

Amid trying times, good samaritans lend a helping hand

Several NGOs, organisations or volunteers in Delhi, some via social media, are offering food delivery service to those Covid-19 patients quarantined at home. Humanity, it seems, isn’t dead India is in the grip of a second wave of Covid- 19. In these trying times, when cases are spurring and the death toll is rising everywhere, […]

‘No matter the effort, we are unable to make them survive’

Patriot speaks to nurses, who reveal how symptoms of the new Covid strain are worse this time – with hospitals in the Capital city short staffed, and many contracting the virus A couple of days earlier a video showing two Covid-19 patients sharing a bed at Delhi’s Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan (LNJP) hospital bore […]