Last week, Narayana Super Specialty Hospital is East Delhi received a mail from the French embassy offering to donate an oxygen generator to the hospital that is suffering from an oxygen crisis. Much like every other hospital in the city, Narayana too was battling as the shortage of oxygen continued to claim lives of the patients and had been sending SOS calls on twitter amid the panic.

In a much needed act of kindness, France sent an Oxygen generator that was received at the airport at around 7 a.m. on Sunday. Keeping in mind the state of the crisis, the formalities were done away with and the generator was dispatched within a day as the hospital made preparations for the installation simultaneously.

The oxygen generator was installed at the hospital by 8:30 p.m. and was up and running after a trial in another four hours. Commander Navneet Bali, regional director of Narayana Health, said that “the generator donated by the French Government can fill 48 cylinders weighing between 40 to 60 litres every 24 hours. This would give us the the much-required elbow-room to tide over the crisis caused by delay in supply of cylinders from regular channels.”