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 […]

No room for treatment: Only 46 Covid-19 ICU beds in Delhi

Ganga Ram hospital shows 14 beds available on Delhi government’s Corona dashboard, but when Patriot calls to check – the officials say none are available, and claims 500 people on waiting list Delhi is facing an acute shortage of Covid-19 ICU beds. While the Delhi government has its website “Corona jantasamvad” where one can check […]

Delhi faces yet another migrant labour crisis, repeating last year’s horror

With Covid-19 cases reaching its all time high in India, labourers and blue collar workers in Delhi are going back home, again It’s April 2021, but nothing much has changed. With Covid cases surging, migrant labourers are vulnerable, facing the horrors of last year yet again — apprehensions about another lockdown is forcing them to […]