Delhi govt procures 125 new ventilators for hospitals

Delhi government has procured 125 new ventilators to add to the existing 80 following reports that Ambu-bags, manual hand-held devices which support breathing, were being used to resuscitate patients due to shortage of ventilators at its hospitals.
"Procured 125 new ventilators against existing 80. Installation likely in 15 -20 days," Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal wrote on Twitter today.
Kejriwal had yesterday pulled up Health Minister Satyendar Jain over shortage of ventilators in hospitals who in turn sought to shift the blame to Lt Governor Najeeb Jung accusing the Health Secretary "appointed by him" of not reaching hospital to deal with a case of medical negligence.

"Satinder, this is unacceptable (sic)," Kejriwal had tweeted.
Later, Jain wrote on Twitter, "There is a death in LNH due to negligence. I requested Sec health to reach Hospital with me. He refused to come saying unavailability of car(sic)."
According to sources in the Delhi government's Health Department, Jain had received information about death of a patient on Saturday in Lok Nayak Hospital allegedly because he was not provided with ventilator support.

Jain was going to the hospital to check ground reality.
He had also asked the Health Secretary to accompany him but the officer had refused saying his car was not available, they said.

Jain blamed the L-G, saying he has appointed the "most incompetent" IAS officer as the health secretary.
"Shameful. The L-G has appointed the most incompetent, useless n insensitive IAS officer as health secy(Sic)," Jain tweeted.
However, the secretary later reached the spot in an auto, sources said.