Manish Sisodiya, the Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi and nodal Minister for Covid-19 management tried to brow beat the hospitals for complaining about deaths occurring due to non-availability of medical Oxygen supply supposed to be made available by the government to meet the emergency created by second wave of the pandemic.

Sisodiya, according to NDTV, TimesNow, etc. berated the hospitals ‘not to raise alarms unnecessarily over oxygen shortage and appealed to the media, to verify claims before reporting’.

He then reportedly tweeted, ” This morning, I got an SOS call from a hospital that had 18 kilo litres of oxygen in stock.” He went to state, “The hospital requires 4.8 kl a day and has a storage capacity of 21 kl, meaning it still has three days of supply left”.

Manish Sisodiya must be talking about treating Praying Mantis suffering from breathlessness, when he says that a 4.8kl of Oxygen is sufficient for an entire hospital. As in reality, a single critical Covid patient on an average requires 86000 litres of oxygen per day i.e. 86kl of oxygen per day according to a medical expert quoted by Sisodia’s own favourite news website, Print.

According to the Print article, “Dr Kamna Kakkar, senior resident, Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at PGIMS Rohtak, who has been treating Covid-19 patients, a single patient on high flow nasal cannula (HFNC) uses over 86,000 litres of oxygen per day”.

Dr. Kakkar further told the Print, “It is certainly a lot of oxygen but it saves lives. Let’s say there is a patient on HFNC who requires 100 per cent oxygen at 60 litres per minute. So, that would amount to 3,600 litres of oxygen required per hour.”

It is appalling that the Deputy Chief Minister does not know about the amount of medical oxygen required for a Covid patient, which even a 12 year old child would be able to tell now with experience of seeing the pandemic around him/her with patients in almost every second family in Delhi suffering from breathlessness that a patient needs at least a 10 to12kl oxygen cylinder in emergency which lasts for about an hour.

Sisodiya in bid to hide the criminal negligence by his government headed by Arvind Kejriwal, who has not bothered to even procure empty cryogenic tankers for filling medical oxygen, leave alone sending them for refilling to Jindal Plants near Delhi in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh; comes up with this laughable fib of a hospital needing only 4.8kl of oxygen per day.

The Jaipur Golden Hospital has exposed the Kejriwal government’s utter negligence and incompetence when it stated to the High Court: ” Yesterday, Delhi government said hospitals are raising unnecessary SOS. Please tell us, how many hours before deaths starts happening should we call them?”. “I was supposed to get 3.5MT at 5 pm, but I didn’t. Delhi government failed completely and they don’t understand the supply chain and disrupt it”.

Sisodiya does not understand the difference between Kilo Litres and Metric Tonnes being a nodal Minister for Covid and says 4.8kl of oxygen is enough for a hospital, when the minimum requirement would be 4.8 MT of oxygen for a hospital.

It is not at all surprising that a media which jumps at every tongue slip of Modi and tries to invent fake news against him is completely silent on the major negligence and complete apathy of Sisodiya even in having a cursory knowledge about how much average Oxygen is required by a single Covid patient, leave alone a hospital; as it is fattened

The complete ineptness and criminal negligence of Kejriwal and his Deputy Chief Minister Sisodiya is not raised by the media as he has fattened up the media with Rs.150 crores of public money for running advertisements from January-March 2021, by perhaps diverting the whopping 651.41 crores granted by the Centre for Covid relief to Delhii government for Kejriwal’s personal aggrandisement.

Kejriwal couldn’t establish the bare minimum 8 Medical Oxygen plants needed by utilising these funds for Delhi, but chose to lavishly shower the media with grand advertisements about how well the AAP and Kejriwal are handling the Covid crisis, while people were dying without enough medical oxygen supply in hospitals. Kejriwal has neither establishment any new hospitals in the past four years of his Chief Ministership despite having crores of public money at his disposal.

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