Covid patients suffering to get oxygen at Delhi.

Delhi-based Aakash Healthcare Super Speciality Hospital on Sunday sought the governments help to provide it with oxygen to save the lives of 250 patients, as the life-saving gas available with it would not last for more than 60 minutes.

The hospital sounded the alert through an SOS message on its Twitter handle, seeking help from the Delhi government as well as the Centre. CRY FOR HELP: Received only 5 oxygen cylinders after running around the entire day, not more than 60 mins left to save lives of more than 250 patients. Crying out to Govt authorities to shift out our patients ASAP so that they can be saved.

Aakash Healthcare Super Speciality Hospital is a tertiary care facility in Delhis Dwarka area. Earlier, Delhis Madhukar Rainbow Childrens Hospital on Sunday sounded alert over oxygen shortage on a regular basis despite it claimed to be the citys southern regions only hospital that have been admitting pregnant women infected with Covid-19.

The 130-bedded hospital sent an SOS message through its Twitter handle after it again faced similar issue on Sunday when the oxygen availability at the facility for the day was estimated till 12 noon.