A day after it claimed to have started door-to-door supply of medicaloxygenforCovidpatients in Home isolation,Haryanagovernment, on Sunday, said the state has a buffer stock of10MToxygen for emergency use as the state stock has reached 262MT. The buffer stock has now gone up to 20MT and deputy commissioners have been directed to create 20 to 50bedsin their civil hospitals with provision of Oxygen.
As of now, more than 12,000 patients among 1.16 lakh active cases are on oxygen and ventilator support in Covid hospitals across the state. Many of them are in Gurgaon, Faridabad, Rohtak and Hisar districts.
Supply of oxygen has been a major challenge for the in the wake of the Covid surge. Deaths have been reported largely due to non- availability of oxygen in private hospitals of Rewari, Faridabad and Hisar. Many SoS calls for oxygen have been received from desperate kin of critical patients.