A petition has been filed against the Central Government in National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) by the Human Rights Activist Vishnu Kumar Gupta over the death due to the unavailability of medical oxygen in the hospital across the country.
Vishnu’s petition read, “District hospitals and private hospitals in the country have neither installed oxygen plants nor have oxygen storage facilities whereas Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) plants can be set up at these places in lesser time in a single month. The PSA oxygen plant costs exactly the amount which many hospitals spend every year to procure oxygen for themselves.”
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It further read, “There is a shortage of oxygen due to lack of its buffer stock in our country. If the government has taken into account the common man’s ‘Right to Live’ guaranteed in the constitution amid last year’s coronavirus crisis, such as catastrophic situation would not have arisen had the buffer stock of oxygen and its production/supply been taken care of.”
Advocate Gupta said, “The Central Government has failed to assess the implications of this pandemic and it is expected that the third was will hit the country in October 2021 as it becomes the primary responsibility of government to keep in mind the current situation and future of oxygen supply.”
He added, “Saving lives of elderly and young children is the foremost duty of the Central government. Therefore, a request has been made to the NHRC to order the Central Medical and Health Department to get patients suffering from other comorbidities, including Covid-19, and the vaccination must be the top priority.”
Advocate Gupta has also asked Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath to urgently set up a PSA oxygen plant to cure the state of the worrisome situation.