By Muslim Mirror Staff
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court came down heavily on the Modi government in connection with the shortage of oxygen in hospitals. It ordered the government to explore all possible options to supply oxygen for the treatment of Covid-19 patients.
“You are not exploring all avenues to augment oxygen supply. Beg, borrow or steal,” the court told the Centre, and asked why is it not waking up to the gravity of the emergency situation. It also warned that certainly all hell will break loose with the stoppage of medical oxygen to the hospitals.
The court was holding a special hearing after Max Healthcare network sought its urgent intervention, saying that most of its hospitals were working on “dangerously low levels of oxygen supply”.
”Beg, borrow or steal,” a bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli said.
Solictor General Tushar Mehra, representing the government, had told the court that only 200-250 MTs could be received during the day and there were obstructions from Haryana.
”We are hopeful that the emergent needs of various hospitals in Delhi will be met so that no casualties are suffered on account of discontinued supply of oxygen to seriously ill Covid patients and other patients who require oxygen support till we take up the matter and pass orders tomorrow,” said the court.