-NDTV The government is taxing people who buy Covid-related medical drugs like Remdesivir and others, as well as taxing the supplements and medical grade Oxygen for Oxygen cylinders, with a tax as high as 12 per cent. New Delhi: Indian and global medical experts are shocked at the Indian government making money off the sick and dying. Every expert consulted for this report said this has to stop. A family that buys an...
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Nandurbar model: How a Maharashtra district is beating Covid-19 with its 'Oxygen nurses' -Vidya
-IndiaToday.com Nandurbar, a tribal district in Maharashtra, has evolved a model that ensures optimum use of medical Oxygen. The district had started planning for its Oxygen needs in September last year and has installed three plants since then. Today, it's self-sufficient in Oxygen and is supplying the excess to other districts. The term 'Oxygen nurse' was coined in Nandurbar, a tribal district in Maharashtra, for its optimum utilisation of Oxygen cylinders. Following...
More »Where are the 300 tonnes of emergency Covid-19 supplies that have landed in Delhi in last five days? -Arunabh Saikia & Supriya Sharma
-Scroll.in No domestic flights have taken off to carry the supplies to other parts of India, nor have states been informed about their share by the Centre. In the past five days, 25 flights loaded with 300 tonnes of emergency Covid-19 relief supplies have landed in India’s capital from around the world. The supplies include 5,500 Oxygen concentrators, 3,200 Oxygen cylinders and 1,36,000 remdesivir injections, said a spokesperson of the Delhi International...
More »No Patient Shall Be Denied Hospitalisation, Essential Drugs for Lack of Address Proof: SC
-PTI/ TheWire.in The top court also directed the Centre to ensure that the deficit in the supply of Oxygen to the national capital is rectified before May 3 midnight. New Delhi: The Supreme Court has directed the Centre to formulate within two weeks a national policy on admissions to hospitals in the wake of the second wave of COVID-19 and said no patient shall be denied hospitalisation or essential drugs in any...
More »SC Issues Directions to Centre on Managing Covid19 Crisis; Asks it to Rectify Oxygen Deficit, Formulate National Policy of Hospital Admissions; Suggests a Lockdown
-Leaflet.in/ Newsclick.in The Supreme Court, in an order released on Sunday evening, directed the Central Government to ensure that the deficit in the supply of Oxygen to the national capital is rectified within two days. It also directed the Centre to prepare, in collaboration with the states, a buffer stock of Oxygen for emergency purposes and decentralize the location of the emergency stocks. “The emergency stocks shall be created within the next four...
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