Noida health official says private hospitals can't ask attendants to arrange oxygen for patients

The Chief Medical Officer has said hospitals in UP’s Noida can’t ask attendants to arrange oxygen for Covid patients admitted to private hospitals. The district administration also said it has made adequate availability of oxygen and medicines.

Doctors in Gautam Buddh Nagar will not ask attendants to arrange oxygen for their Covid-19 positive patients at private hospitals, which will have to bear the onus of making such arrangements, Chief Medical Officer Deepak Ohri said on Monday. The development comes in the wake of multiple hospitals in Noida and Greater Noida claiming shortage of medical oxygen and several people facing acute difficulties in procuring oxygen cylinders for their patients in hospitals and home isolation. However, the district administration has refuted such claims and said it has made adequate availability of oxygen and medicines and scaling up its efforts for more as the second wave of the pandemic hit people hard. “All private doctors are being directed to not ask relative or attendant of any patient to procure oxygen cylinders because it leads to problematic situation and causes trouble to everyone. Hence, it is being stopped with immediate effect,” the CMO stated in an order issued Monday evening.