Hitting out at the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Government, Delhi Congress president, Anil Kumar, said only 26 ventilators are available in hospitals in the national Capital but the Government is doing nothing concrete to augment facilities even as the Covid-19 cases are increasing day by day.

“The situation now has reached a critical stage in the Capital which is evident from the fact that over 96 per cent of ventilators have been occupied as 155 patients were admitted in various Government run hospitals in the last 24 hours,” he said.

Kumar said that with just 26 ventilators available in Delhi Government hospitals now where mostly the common people go and the Covid pandemic making a rapid rise, Delhiites are facing a grave situation with Delhi Chief Minister Arvind doing nothing to ramp up infrastructure and other facilities in Government hospitals.

“Five out of the nine Government hospitals, including big hospitals like LNJP and Rajiv Gandhi, ventilators are fully occupied, and the common people who are unable to afford the high cost of treatment in private hospitals face a life and death dilemma as Delhi Chief Arvind and his cabinet colleagues have only been making statements after statements without doing anything at the ground level to improve the facilities.

The availability of ventilators in the Central Government hospitals is also not better as 159 out of the 192 ventilators available have been occupied with just 17 per cent beds remaining empty, he said.

The Congress leader expressed concern at the rising demand for ventilators. He said that out of the 7932 patients admitted in Delhi hospitals, 1041 are on ventilators which show the seriousness of the fourth wave of the Corona pandemic in Delhi.

Elaborating it further, he said out of the remaining 4817 beds available for Corona patients, only 2.34 per cent ventilator facility is available which is inadequate to cater to the rising number of the patients infected with the COVID-19 in the National Capital.