The oxygen audit committee set up by the Supreme Court during last month’s lethal second wave of Covid-19 has concluded that the Delhi government sought four times more oxygen than what was required. During the months of April-May, multiple Delhi hospitals had run out of oxygen supply with some facilities claiming critical Covid-19 patients had died due to a shortage in oxygen supply. This had triggered a war of words between the Kejriwal government and Centre. With the intervention of the Delhi High Court, the Centre had revised Delhi’s oxygen allotment in those months and supplied more of the life-saving gas by cutting short on other states. According to the audit report, Delhi needed about 300 metric tonnes of oxygen at that time, but the Delhi government raised the demand to 1200 metric tonnes. The oxygen audit report has further said that due to Delhi’s excessive demand, 12 other states had to face a severe shortage of life-saving oxygen as the supply of other states was diverted to Delhi.
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