Covid hospitals gasp as shortage of oxygen hits health facilities in Gujarat

Piped oxygen supply can be of pressurised oxygen gas, supplied at the hospital-level by a tanker or by a series of jumbo cylinders. (FIle)

The Gujarat government notification on Thursday regularise the supply and circulation of medical oxygen from production units across the state came after a scare faced by Covid-19 hospitals in Ahmedabad and Vadodara over the last fortnight over severe shortage of oxygen.

Alarm bells first rang when nodal officer at Vadodara’s Gujarat Medical Education and Research Society-run (GMERS), Gotri, Dr Shital Mistry, wrote letters…