The Delhi Police on Monday night cleared the way for two Oxygen supply tankers heading to a hospital in Paschim Vihar that had run out of oxygen. The tankers were stuck at Delhi borders amid Covid-19 restrictions in the capital.

The Action Balaji Hospital has 235 Covid patients who were left without any oxygen support until the tankers arrived. The swift action by the Delhi Police helped the 235 Covid patients admitted at Action Balaji hospital in Paschim Vihar.

While sceptics may say why praise the police when this is what they should be doing in the first place, what they don’t know is that the traffic situation in Delhi was thrown right back into the Stone Age on Monday night. Frantic motorists raced bumper to bumper along arterial roads to make it home in time before the curfew kicked in at 10 pm and will stay in force till April 26 morning, with exceptions of course.

Delhi Police also helped send more oxygen tankers to other hospitals with a shortage. 10 oxygen cylinders were sent to Saroj Hospital, 15 to Agrasen Hospital, five to ILBS Vasant Kunj and 10 to Fortis hospital as the capital battles an acute shortage of oxygen.

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The two tankers, one carrying 14,000 litres of oxygen while the other with 5,500 litres, were stuck in Noida and Faridabad respectively due to the night curfew in Delhi. Earlier on Sunday, the Delhi Police had rushed 20 oxygen cylinders to a hospital in outer Delhi’s Nihal Vihar area to help 35 Covid-19 patients admitted there.

The director of Mansa Ram Hospital on Nangloi Nazafgarh road contacted the Nihal Vihar police station and said that they have 35 Covid-19 patients on oxygen support and that their stock will not last for more than one hour. The police said that the hospital had contacted all the concerned for help but could not get any response due to shortage of oxygen.

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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said Delhi is facing an acute shortage of oxygen for Covid-19 patients and alleged that the quota of the city has been diverted to other states. Joining the list of other states that have flagged shortage of oxygen supplies, Kejriwal tweeted that Oxygen has become an emergency in Delhi.

The Chief Minister also wrote letters to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Commerce and Industries Minister Piyush Goyal urging them to scale up bed capacity in central government-run hospitals and to ensure uninterrupted supply of medical oxygen.

Delhi has been registering a grim rise in coronavirus cases with over 23,000 infections on Monday. The capital also recorded 240 deaths – the highest in the city since the pandemic began a year ago.

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