PANAJI
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has said that despite a major calamity being avoided on Tuesday night after oxygen ran out in a ward at GMC, the Govt of Goa has still not got its act together. Expressing disbelief at the sheer apathy of the Govt, State convenor Rahul Mhambre said the situation at GMC now is actually even worse, with many patients being now told plainly to make their own arrangements for oxygen cylinders.
Mhambre highlighted an incident on Tuesday night when an alert citizen, Ashley Delaney, posted an SOS message on social media platform Facebook warning that the oxygen had run out in Ward 142 of GMC and that patients may die as their O2 saturation levels were dropping. Mhambre informed that AAP leader and spokesperson Valmiki Naik, after seeing the SOS post, immediately informed the Chief Minister and Health Minister by telephone, following which an emergency supply of oxygen was brought in. Mhambre said the timely action stopped a major tragedy from taking place, describing the situation as so bad that doctors were bringing cylinders from other wards and sharing one cylinder between multiple patients just to keep them alive.
AAP has demanded that the CM make a time-bound enquiry as to why a system has not been set up yet to raise SOS for such critical shortages of oxygen, despite deaths already reported to have occurred due to this reason.
