Why India ran out of oxygen despite boosting capacity more than 125%
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Why India ran out of oxygen despite boosting capacity more than 125%

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India’s demand for medical oxygen surpassed Brazil’s six-fold on May 5. Oxygen Therapy for Covid-19 Patients But the unmet demand in the past weeks is linked to the ferocious second wave that began on March 1. Oxygen Demand in India and elsewhere PATH, which tracks oxygen demand on the basis of WHO data, reckons that the demand in September 2020 was close to four million cubic metres in India. Oxygen Outlook in India Mohammad Ameel, who heads PATH India’s Primary Health Care, Technology and Innovations section, is hopeful that the country’s “severe medical oxygen supply crisis is expected to ease by mid-May with output rising by 25 per cent and transport infrastructure ready to cope with a surge in demand”. “The first oxygen allocation order issued on April 15, 2021 was restricted to a few states like Maharashtra, Gujarat, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, etc,” read a central government statement on May 10.

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