India
oi-Madhuri Adnal
New Delhi, May 3: Delhi’s medical oxygen supply on Monday stood at around 447 MT, significantly less than the Centre”s allocated quantity of 590 MT, sources in the city government said.
Despite an acute shortage and repeated demands to the Centre in view of a large number of serious COVID-19 patients, the supply of medical oxygen has failed to take off in a big way in Delhi, the sources said.
The supply rose erratically since April 28, when it was 431 MT, to 447 MT on May 2, but the demand has gone beyond over 900 MT per day, a source in the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government said.
In view of Delhi’s growing caseload, the Centre recently raised the city”s daily oxygen quota from 378 MT to 480 MT, then to 490 MT and finally, to 590 MT. However, the Delhi government that had earlier demanded 700 MT of oxygen per day also increased its demand to 976 MT.
According to official sources,…