Cabinet Secretary Asks Delhi Government To Ramp Up Medical Infrastructure

At a high-level review meeting on the COVID-19 situation here, Mr Gauba also asked the Delhi government to make every effort to lift their allocated oxygen by using all means.

Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba on Sunday expressed anguish over issues related to availability of oxygen in the national capital and emphasised the need to ramp up the city's medical infrastructure. At a high-level review meeting on the COVID-19 situation here, Mr Gauba also asked the Delhi government to make every effort to lift their allocated oxygen by using all means. On issues related to availability of oxygen, the cabinet secretary expressed his anguish at recent instances where people had suffered due to lack of adequate and timely availability of oxygen, an official statement said. He has asked the Delhi government to make all out efforts to lift their allocated oxygen, using all the means at their disposal, and also to ensure that the oxygen available to them is distributed rationally and in a transparent manner, so that there is no diversion or leakage, it said.