Delhi Oxygen Report: Delhi Government’s Mismanagement
Delhi Oxygen Report: Delhi government surrounded by reports on oxygen supply, these 12 states had faced the respiratory crisis.
During the second wave of the Corona epidemic, when there was panic in the whole country regarding oxygen and politics was at its peak.
Then the Arvind Kejriwal government of Delhi was taking four times more oxygen than necessary under pressure.
Due to this act of the Delhi government, 12 states including Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Jammu, and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, and Punjab faced oxygen crisis.
In view of the shortage of oxygen, a sub-committee of the National Task Force (NTF), appointed by the Supreme Court, has said some such things in its report, which has brought the Delhi government in the dock.
The subcommittee in its 23-page report said that during the second wave, the Delhi government showed excessive demand for oxygen and pressed for its allocation.
The truth is that the Kejriwal government did not even have adequate arrangements to store the oxygen it was demanding.
Due to low consumption, it was taking more time to empty the oxygen tankers. Due to this, there was a delay in getting tankers to supply oxygen to other states.
The report said that during the investigation, the subcommittee found that between April 25 and May 10.
The amount of oxygen claimed by the Delhi government was four times higher than the formula prepared on the basis of hospital beds.
According to the report, the requirement of consumption of 1,140 metric tonnes of oxygen a day was started by the Delhi government,.
Whereas according to the formula, only 289 metric tonnes of oxygen should have been consumed in Delhi on that day.
The sub-committee has said that even if consumption is increased to 400 metric tonnes per day, the Delhi government has brought an order from the Supreme Court to continue supplying 700 metric tonnes of oxygen.
According to the central government’s formula, only 50 percent of patients admitted to non-ICU beds need oxygen support.
But the Delhi government had claimed that all patients kept on non-ICU beds have to be given oxygen support.
Center formula on expert opinion.
The formula for the center of oxygen supply was prepared on the basis of expert opinion. On that basis, oxygen was being supplied to other states.
At the same time, the Delhi government said that it has prepared the formula based on the guidelines of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
The report said that when the ICMR guidelines were sought from the Delhi government by the sub-committee, it could not submit anything.
Hid the matter of negative consumption.
The May 13 meeting of the subcommittee found that Delhi’s Singhal Hospital, Aruna Asaf Ali, ESIC Model Hospital and Liferay Hospital had claimed much higher oxygen consumption than their bed capacity.
Some hospitals reported negative consumption due to excess oxygen supply, while the report presented by the Delhi government did not mention negative consumption in any hospital.
Error collecting data.
In the meeting of the subcommittee, the Additional Secretary, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) expressed his displeasure over the shortcomings found in the collection of data on behalf of the Delhi government regarding oxygen.
The secretary said that it is still not clear on what basis the Delhi government had demanded the allocation of 700 metric tonnes of oxygen daily in the Supreme Court.
Created the wrong formula.
The subcommittee said that it was found in the investigation that the Delhi government had prepared a wrong formula regarding the demand for oxygen.
On that basis, the demand for oxygen was increased. The situation was that many hospitals in Delhi did not even know the difference between kiloliter and metric ton.
Chairman of the Delhi AIIMS Director’s Sub-Committee.
A five-member sub-committee was constituted under the chairmanship of Dr. Randeep Guleria, Director, Delhi AIIMS. Sandeep Budhiraja, Director, Max Healthcare, BS Bhalla, Principal Secretary.
Government of Delhi, Subodh Yadav, Joint Secretary, Jal Shakti Mission and Dr. Sanjay Kumar Singh, Controller of Explosives, Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organization (PESO) were also present in this.
