Beside maintaining law & order in the city, Delhi Police officers are responding to various SOS calls received at Police Control Room (PCR) and Twitter. In the past couple of days, many city hospitals have made SOS calls to various police stations seeking help in arranging oxygen cylinders for the hospitals.
In North district, on Saturday around 40 oxygen cylinders and four other big oxygen cylinders were arranged by Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Vijender Singh and Constable Hariom to NKS Hospital in two instances.
"They got cylinders filled from Bawana for NKS hospital and shifted those timely to hospital," said a police official.
The Safdarjung Hospital was running low on oxygen when the staff of hospital contacted police and urged them to provide clear pass to oxygen tanker which had taken long route due to ongoing farmers agitation at city borders.
"Then ERV of Safdarjung police station reached sector-62, Noida and escorted oxygen carrying truck. The ERV took wrong carriage way and made it reach Safdarjung Hospital, when oxygen was left only for 10 mins. Life of more than three hundred patients was saved due to prompt and timely action of Police," said police.
After receiving SOS message, a green corridor was also provided for 20 cylinders in Delhi's east district.
Police said that Emergency Response Vehicle (ERV) and a bike of New Ashok Nagar police station were engaged to coordinating with Dharamshila Hospital authority.
"The police team formed a Green Corridor by taking painstaking efforts in providing supply of 20 big oxygen cylinders to Dharamshila Hospital , Vasundra Enclave Delhi at 10.30 PM from Seth Agency Ballabhgarh, Faridabad. More then 110 patients are under treatment here in Dharamshila Hospital and oxygen supply was going dry in Hospital," said a senior police official.
In Shahdara district, the ESI hospital, Vivek Vihar have 200 beds and out of these, 5 are ICU beds while 70 beds are with oxygen facility.
"On April 24, around 10:30 PM, the medical superintendent of ESI hospital intimated SHO of Vivek Vihar police station that the available oxygen at hospital is left for 1.5-2 hours. The lives of patients are at high risk and requested SHO/ Vivek Vihar to do the needful," said a senior police official.
"After receiving SOS information, Inspector Ajay Kumar, the SHO of Vivek Vihar police station contacted the Covid helpline of GNCTD numbers. The ACP Vivek vihar Mayank Bansal also made call to his counter part from the District Administration in order to avert any worse situation from happening," he said.
"At around 03:15 AM, SDM of Vivek Vihar contacted SHO and assured for providing oxygen support but that would take sometime. In the meantime, SHO/ Vivek Vihar sent the police staff with vehicle and staff of ESI hospital to Bawana oxygen plant and Bhardwaj Gas Plant, Kanjhawala, Delhi for availing the oxygen cylinders in the night and requested the concerned PS/SHOs for help," Chinmoy Biswal, DCP Crime and spokesperson of Delhi Police.
"When no oxygen could be supplied to the ESI hospital for few hours, inspector Ajay Kumar requested the private hospital Gupta Multispecialty Hospital, Vivek Vihar on personal goodwill to borrow three oxygen cylinders from there," Biswal added.
"Further, due to timely Liaisoning with SDM Vivek vihar by the SHO, the Hospital could get three more oxygen cylinders from Yamuna Sports Complex and The same were immediately provided to ESI Hospital. Later on, 10 more cylinders were also provided by the district administraion based on the calls made to oxygen helpline provided by GNCT," he added.