As many as 20 patients died on Friday night and more than 200 lives are currently at stake due to the lack of oxygen at Delhi’s Jaipur Golden Hospital in Rohini, Medical Director DK Baluja informed. Only half-an-hour of oxygen is left, he revealed further. He said that the government had allotted them 3.5 metric tonne of oxygen, which was to be re-filled on Friday. However, that did not happen.

“Yesterday night [Friday], merely 1,500 litres of oxygen was provided, because of which we were left with no oxygen as it was insufficient and 20 people died,” Baluja said. There are 215 COVID-19 patients admitted in the hospital at the moment. As hospitals in Delhi face an acute shortage of oxygen, the COVID-19 cases are on the rise with  24,331 fresh COVID-19 cases and 348 related deaths.