Thread by @PrateekKChadha

I did pro bono work for two private hospitals in Delhi during the worst of the Second Wave. My sole task was helping the hospitals negotiate with the DHC supervised government mechanism for more oxygen. The fact was these hospitals got less Oxygen than needed. #OxygenAudit
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The government officers, lawyers & amicus were exceedingly helpful but the fact was that there was not enough oxygen to go around. Everyday we were left scrambling for the next shipment of oxygen and thankfully for these hospitals it normally arrived in the nick of time.
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Everyday, we would ask for more oxygen to be alloted and would have to wait till the Delhi Government was just informed what the expected supply for the NCT was for the day. Depending on how much oxygen Delhi got a chart for the division among major hospitals was prepared.
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This is all a matter of record and the notifications alloting oxygen between hospitals were published. Every major hospital in Delhi was on the list. The High Court was supervising the distribution on a daily basis. The Union Government was in the loop.
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For anyone to suggest that there was a misrepresentation about oxygen and that less than 300 MT was required is a joke. At 700+ MT for the day, these hospitals were still getting less than we had asked for. Patient care suffered as a consequence.
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Any suggestion that the requirement was fabricated and false is a slut against every frontline worker in Delhi. These numbers could not have been fabricated unless the majority of hospitals had decided to actively conspire to inflate numbers.
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To suggest that a whole set of people in Delhi decided to cost fellow Indians their lives by demanding more oxygen than actually required as part of a bizarre conspiracy to make the Union Government look bad is outrageous slander.
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Anyone making this allegation is utterly shameless and should be made to apologise to every frontline worker in the city. They should also tell us where this extra oxygen disappeared to.
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It is shocking that anyone could think the people of Delhi would forget in a couple of months just how scarce oxygen was. Even if you could get a hospital bed, you still needed to arrange oxygen. #OxygenLangars existed for a reason.
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I cannot believe that our polity has sunk this low. I really really hope the #SupremeCourt and #DelhiHighCourt give them the treatment they deserve.
#Disgraceful #COVID19 #delhiFightsCorona #RIPVictimsOfO2Shortage

It is shocking that anyone could think the people of Delhi would forget in a couple of months just how scarce oxygen was. Even if you could get a hospital bed, you still needed to arrange oxygen. #OxygenLangars existed for a reason.
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I cannot believe that our polity has sunk this low. I really really hope the #SupremeCourt and #DelhiHighCourt give them the treatment they deserve.
#Disgraceful #COVID19 #delhiFightsCorona #RIPVictimsOfO2Shortage
#DelhiRemembers
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