Don’t generalise to say Delhi sought 4X oxygen needed: AIIMS chief Guleria | India News
NEW DELHI: Amid controversy over a report on Delhi’s oxygen needs submitted by a Supreme Court-appointed panel headed by him, AIIMS director Randeep Guleria on Saturday said it is an interim one and oxygen requirements are dynamic and change from day-to-day.
In the report, the five-member sub group headed by Guleria said that Delhi’s oxygen needs were “exaggerated” by four times during the second Covid wave.
“It is an interim report. The oxygen needs are dynamic and change from day to day. The matter is subjudice,” AIIMS chief told PTI.
Following the report, the BJP had on Friday had accused the Arvind Kejriwal dispensation of “criminal negligence” while the AAP government in turn charged the saffron party with “cooking up” such a report.
The sub-group constituted by the Supreme Court to audit oxygen consumption in hospitals in the national capital during the second wave said the Delhi government “exaggerated” the consumption of oxygen and made a claim of 1,140 MT, four times higher than the formula for bed capacity requirement of 289 MT. The five-member panel said the Delhi government had made the claims for allocation of 700 MT oxygen on April 30 of medical grade oxygen using a “wrong formula”.
In the report, the five-member sub group headed by Guleria said that Delhi’s oxygen needs were “exaggerated” by four times during the second Covid wave.
“It is an interim report. The oxygen needs are dynamic and change from day to day. The matter is subjudice,” AIIMS chief told PTI.
Following the report, the BJP had on Friday had accused the Arvind Kejriwal dispensation of “criminal negligence” while the AAP government in turn charged the saffron party with “cooking up” such a report.
The sub-group constituted by the Supreme Court to audit oxygen consumption in hospitals in the national capital during the second wave said the Delhi government “exaggerated” the consumption of oxygen and made a claim of 1,140 MT, four times higher than the formula for bed capacity requirement of 289 MT. The five-member panel said the Delhi government had made the claims for allocation of 700 MT oxygen on April 30 of medical grade oxygen using a “wrong formula”.
