"Are you going to tell patients to wait till April 22 for oxygen?": Delhi HC to Centre

NEW DELHI: In the fight for the shortage of oxygen and discrimination, the people of Delhi stands in the middle of nowhere in the fight against the COVID-19 trauma.

Meanwhile, coming to the rescue of the Delhi government, the Delhi High Court directed the Centre to cut down on oxygen for industries like petroleum and steel and to ensure enough to treat Covid patients.

Putting stress on the people the Court said that the economic interests could not override human lives or we are heading for disaster.

"Industries can wait. Patients cannot. Human lives are at stake," a bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli said to the Centre.

The judges said they had heard doctors at Ganga Ram Hospital were being forced to reduce oxygen being given to Covid patients because of the scarcity.

When the Centre said oxygen had been banned for industrial use from April 22, the court asked: "Why not do it today itself? Why wait for April 22? Lives are at stake. Are you going to tell patients to wait till April 22 for oxygen?"

Hitting back at the Delhi government, the Centre told the High Court that if the Delhi Government can't manage the oxygen, they should give the health system to the Centre.

The High Court was hearing a petition it had disposed of earlier but revived yesterday, with the judges noting the virus had raised its "ugly head" once again, that the pandemic is raging with much greater intensity and that "it is evident that the healthcare infrastructure is at the stage of imminent collapse"

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