India’s gov’t eases hospital oxygen shortage as demand jumps
3 years, 8 months ago

India’s gov’t eases hospital oxygen shortage as demand jumps

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — Under order by the Supreme Court, India’s government on Thursday agreed to provide more medical oxygen to hospitals in the capital city of New Delhi, potentially easing a 2-week-old shortage that worsened the country’s exploding coronavirus crisis. The court intervened after 12 COVID-19 patients, including a doctor, died last week at New Delhi’s Batra Hospital when it ran out of medical oxygen for 80 minutes. K. Vijay Raghvan, a principal scientific adviser to the government, characterized the explosion of cases “a very critical time for the country.” Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, suggested a complete shutdown in India may be needed two to four weeks to help ease the surge of infections. Demand for hospital oxygen has increased sevenfold since last month, a government official said, as India struggles to set up large oxygen plants and transport oxygen to where it is needed.

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Covid-19: Hospitalisation low in Bihar despite rise in active cases
1 year, 8 months ago

Covid-19: Hospitalisation low in Bihar despite rise in active cases

Hindustan Times  

PATNA: Bihar reported as many as 133 new cases of Covid-19 on Sunday, a marginal dip from 198 on Saturday — the highest spike in a day this month — pushing the number of active cases to 857 in the state, as per government data on Sunday. Despite an increase in the number of active cases, only 20 patients required …

Delhi Air Pollution: Govt not serious about tackling monstrous problem, says Varun Gandhi
2 years, 2 months ago

Delhi Air Pollution: Govt not serious about tackling monstrous problem, says Varun Gandhi

Firstpost  

Neither government nor people are serious about this monstrous problem, he said in tweets, claiming that hospitals are full of patients with breathing, heart and lung problems New Delhi: With the air quality in Delhi-NCR worsening, BJP MP Varun Gandhi on Thursday questioned lack of “concern and coordination” among multiple government agencies in tackling the crisis. Neither government nor people …

Why India must come clean on Covid-19 deaths
2 years, 8 months ago

Why India must come clean on Covid-19 deaths

Hindustan Times  

In a soft, sad tone, Jagjyot Singh talks about “fighting till the end”. His mother, Sarabjeet, admitted for Covid-19 at Delhi’s Jaipur Golden Hospital, died on the fateful night of April 23, 2021, when oxygen ran out in the intensive care unit. The death certificate issued in Jagjyot’s mother’s name describes the manner of death as “natural,” and the cause …

Few Covid patients in Delhi need critical care, oxygen: Doctors
2 years, 8 months ago

Few Covid patients in Delhi need critical care, oxygen: Doctors

Hindustan Times  

Even amid a slight uptick in Covid-19 cases in the national capital, the number of hospitalised patients continues to be marginal, with even fewer requiring critical care, oxygen and ventilator support, said health experts in Delhi. Of the 101 patients hospitalised, only 29 were in intensive care units, 19 required oxygen support and four critically ill patients required ventilator support. …

An honest reckoning: On simmering dispute between India and WHO about COVID deaths
2 years, 8 months ago

An honest reckoning: On simmering dispute between India and WHO about COVID deaths

The Hindu  

The visit of Tedros Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, to Gujarat for the Global Ayush Investment and Innovation Summit coincides with a simmering dispute between India and WHO on its forthcoming report on excess COVID-19 deaths between 2020 and 2021. A report in The New York Times claims that WHO estimates India accounted for four million deaths, or …

Covid-19: No state reported confirmed death due to oxygen shortage, says govt
2 years, 9 months ago

Covid-19: No state reported confirmed death due to oxygen shortage, says govt

Hindustan Times  

The Centre on Tuesday informed Parliament that confirmed death due to oxygen shortage has not been reported by any state or union territory although over 5.21 lakh fatalities due to Covid-19 have been recorded in India. "As on April 4, 2022, states/UTs have reported a total of 5,21,358 deaths due to Covid-19 in the country," Minister of State for health …

A Nation To Protect by Priyam Gandhi-Mody: Challenges thrown at Modi govt during COVID crisis and they overcame them
2 years, 9 months ago

A Nation To Protect by Priyam Gandhi-Mody: Challenges thrown at Modi govt during COVID crisis and they overcame them

Op India  

As the worse of coronavirus pandemic appears to be squarely behind us, author Priyam Gandhi-Modi has written a book which dissects India’s covid management under leadership of Prime Minister Modi. A Nation To Protect – Leading India Through The Covid Crisis by Priyam Gandhi-Mody Excerpt of the book published with permission: It is abundantly clear that officially the Delhi government …

No Covid patient died due to oxygen shortage in Gujarat hospitals, minister tells Assembly
2 years, 9 months ago

No Covid patient died due to oxygen shortage in Gujarat hospitals, minister tells Assembly

India TV News  

Highlights No Covid patient died due to shortage of medical oxygen in Gujarat hospitals, says health minister Patel also said Congress was misguiding people as part of its strategy for upcoming Assembly polls Gujarat now has 192 laboratories, including 111 govt-run ones, for conducting RT-PCR tests, he said No COVID-19 patient died due to shortage of medical oxygen in Gujarat …

Less than 1/5th in hospitals needed oxygen during 5th Covid wave in Delhi: Study
2 years, 11 months ago

Less than 1/5th in hospitals needed oxygen during 5th Covid wave in Delhi: Study

Hindustan Times  

The need to give medical oxygen support to people admitted with Covid-19 during the current wave of the outbreak is less than a third of what was recorded in the last two waves, and almost all of the people who were in intensive care were first brought in with other critical illnesses, according to a new analysis by a private …

Covid-19: Centre Ramps of Oxygen Production Capacity to Combat Third Wave
3 years ago

Covid-19: Centre Ramps of Oxygen Production Capacity to Combat Third Wave

News 18  

The medical infrastructure to combat the ongoing third wave of the Coronavirus pandemic in the country has been ramped up on a massive scale. According to the Centre, the health infrastructure has been doubled in comparison to the second wave of pandemic that caused havoc in the country last year. When the second wave of the pandemic was at its …

46 Covid Deaths in Delhi in 5 Days, 34 Patients Had Comorbidities, 25 Aged Above 60: Govt Data
3 years ago

46 Covid Deaths in Delhi in 5 Days, 34 Patients Had Comorbidities, 25 Aged Above 60: Govt Data

News 18  

Of the 46 COVID-19 patients who died in Delhi between January 5 and January 9, 34 had comorbidities such as cancer and heart and liver diseases, according to government data. Five fatalities were recorded in the 21-40 age group, while one patient each from the 0-15 and 16-20 age cohorts succumbed to the infection, the data showed. According to an …

Slow rise in hospitalisations at Delhi hospitals, not alarming yet
3 years ago

Slow rise in hospitalisations at Delhi hospitals, not alarming yet

India Today  

Data available on Delhi Corona app shows that the number of bed occupancy at Delhi hospitals has increased in the last two days -- hinting at a slow rise in hospitalisations. A health worker prepares a bed for the Covid-19 patients A health worker prepares a bed for the Covid-19 patients 'Incidental positives' at Delhi hospital Doctors said they are …

Andhra Pradesh readies Oxygen Stewards amid Omicron scare
3 years ago

Andhra Pradesh readies Oxygen Stewards amid Omicron scare

Deccan Chronicle  

VISAKHAPATNAM: With the Omicron scare looming large across the world, the Andhra Pradesh state government is readying ‘Oxygen Stewards’ to effectively handle medical oxygen therapy at yet-to-be designated Covid-19 hospitals during the anticipated third wave, which is likely to hit the country from January. The state government may preliminarily have at least 30 Oxygen Stewards covering each district to monitor …

No Covid deaths due to lack of oxygen: Jharkhand govt
3 years, 4 months ago

No Covid deaths due to lack of oxygen: Jharkhand govt

Hindustan Times  

Chief minister Hemant Soren-led Jharkhand government on Tuesday said that no Covid-19 death was reported in the state due to lack of oxygen. In a written reply to a short notice question by BJP legislator and former minister Amar Bauri on Tuesday, the health and family welfare department of the state said that as per the latest figures, 5,132 deaths …

India Gifts Medical Oxygen Plant to Nepal for Tackling Covid-19 Pandemic
3 years, 4 months ago

India Gifts Medical Oxygen Plant to Nepal for Tackling Covid-19 Pandemic

News 18  

India on Thursday donated a medical oxygen plant to Nepal as part of New Delhi's continued commitment to the Himalayan nation in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic. India's Ambassador here Vinay Mohan Kwatra handed over the 960 Litres Per Minute medical oxygen plant to Minister of State for Health Umesh Shrestha at a ceremony at the Ministry of Health and Population, …

Oxygen for India: Building a more resilient health system
3 years, 5 months ago

Oxygen for India: Building a more resilient health system

Hindustan Times  

In 2020–21, air became more valuable than gold. Oxygen resources — pressure swing adsorption plants, oxygen concentrators, and cylinders — have recently entered the country with both significant investment from the national government and support from private philanthropy. All told, an estimated 1,500 PSA plants, 200,000 oxygen concentrators, and 100,000 cylinders are now available not only to tackle any future …

Kerala Model: How the communist govt failed its people amid oxygen crisis during second wave
3 years, 5 months ago

Kerala Model: How the communist govt failed its people amid oxygen crisis during second wave

Op India  

Kerala in the recent few days has been topping in number of new Chinese coronavirus cases. In May 2021, 38 year old Dhanish Kumar from Pathanamthitta district died due to delay in treatment and lack of ICU bed. In May 2021, Sali from Alappuzha died due to shortage of oxygen and lack of timely treatment at Mavelikkara Taluk hospital. They …

No deaths due to shortage of oxygen: Goa minister in assembly
3 years, 5 months ago

No deaths due to shortage of oxygen: Goa minister in assembly

Hindustan Times  

No one died at the Goa Medical College due to oxygen shortage and the hospital never ran out of supplies, state health minister Vishwajit Rane told the assembly on Friday, contradicting his previous comments and the administration’s submissions in the high court. The response comes days after the central government told Parliament that no deaths due to lack of oxygen …

No Space Will Be Left in Hospitals if Covid Cases Keep Rising: Bangladesh Govt Warns
3 years, 5 months ago

No Space Will Be Left in Hospitals if Covid Cases Keep Rising: Bangladesh Govt Warns

News 18  

Bangladesh’s government on Sunday warned that there will be no space left in the hospitals for patients if the COVID-19 cases keep rising at the current pace, amid concerns over increasing number of deaths and infections after the Eid-ul-Azha holidays. Health Minister Zahid Maleque said that everyone should abide by the restrictions during the ongoing lockdown to reduce fresh cases, …

Why those Covid-19 deaths do not figure on 'oxygen shortage' list
3 years, 5 months ago

Why those Covid-19 deaths do not figure on 'oxygen shortage' list

India Today  

Covid death or no death, accounted or un-accounted death, reported or under-reported figures, controversy is going around in the country since first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. A former Indian Medical Association president and owner of a private hospital in East Delhi, said how could one write shortage of oxygen as the cause for death when the patient passed away …

Dealing with denial: The Hindu Editorial on playing down the COVID-19 tragedy
3 years, 5 months ago

Dealing with denial: The Hindu Editorial on playing down the COVID-19 tragedy

The Hindu  

A touchy topic for the Centre and States has been the counting of the dead from COVID-19. In 2020, as the pandemic ravaged Europe and the U.S., Health Ministry officials would incessantly argue that India had better managed the pandemic because its deaths per million of population were comparatively lower. It is technically true that while no death certificate or …

No Death Due to Oxygen Shortage in Maha: Health Minister Tope
3 years, 5 months ago

No Death Due to Oxygen Shortage in Maha: Health Minister Tope

News 18  

Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope on Wednesday said the state government never reported any death due to shortage of oxygen during the second wave of COVID-19. When asked by a TV channel about the Centre’s statement, Tope said, We never said people died due to oxygen shortage in the state. Earlier in the day, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut, whose …

Sanjay Raut forgets what his own govt had said about oxygen shortage
3 years, 5 months ago

Sanjay Raut forgets what his own govt had said about oxygen shortage

Op India  

We reported earlier how the left lobby twisted a seemingly straightforward statement issued by the government to claim that it was lying about the number of fatalities the country suffered due to lack of oxygen during the second wave of the coronavirus outbreak. They are lying: Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Centre saying ‘no deaths due to lack of …

States join Centre in saying no one died due to oxygen shortage: Who said what
3 years, 5 months ago

States join Centre in saying no one died due to oxygen shortage: Who said what

India Today  

A day after the Union Health Ministry told Rajya Sabha that no deaths due to lack of medical oxygen have been reported by states and UTs during the second wave of Covid-19, health ministers of several states have issued statements supporting the Centre. On Tuesday, while responding to a question on whether many Covid-19 patients died on roads and hospitals …

No Deaths Due To Lack Of Oxygen Reported By States, UTs During Second Covid Wave: Centre In RS
3 years, 5 months ago

No Deaths Due To Lack Of Oxygen Reported By States, UTs During Second Covid Wave: Centre In RS

ABP News  

New Delhi: The Central Government on Tuesday informed the Rajya Sabha that no State/UT specified any death due to lack of oxygen during the the second wave of COVID-19. Minister of State for Health, Bharati Pravin Pawar in a written reply to a question by Congress MP KC Venugopal on whether a large number of COVID-19 patients died on roads …

No deaths due to lack of oxygen reported by states during second Covid wave: Govt
3 years, 5 months ago

No deaths due to lack of oxygen reported by states during second Covid wave: Govt

India TV News  

The government on Tuesday informed the Parliament that no states or union territories reported any deaths due to shortage of oxygen during the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic. No deaths due to lack of oxygen have been specifically reported by states/UTs," the ministry told the Rajya Sabha Tuesday. Further, the ministry stressed that the Government of India supported the states …

India logs 41,806 new COVID cases, 581 deaths in past 24 hours
3 years, 6 months ago

India logs 41,806 new COVID cases, 581 deaths in past 24 hours

India TV News  

India recorded 41,806 new cases of the novel coronavirus, along with 581 deaths due to the infection in the past 24 hours. Name of State / UT Active Cases* Cured/Discharged/Migrated* Deaths** Total Change since yesterday Cumulative Change since yesterday Cumulative Change since yesterday 1 Andaman and Nicobar Islands 11 2 7359 1 129 2 Andhra Pradesh 25957 753 1890565 3329 …

Preventing a repeat of the Covid-19 second wave oxygen crisis in India
3 years, 6 months ago

Preventing a repeat of the Covid-19 second wave oxygen crisis in India

Hindustan Times  

Medical oxygen is the single most important intervention for moderate and severe cases of Covid-19. In India, in the past one and a half years of the pandemic, both hospitals that treat Covid-19, and those that do not, suffered a shortage of medical oxygen. The reason is not a lack of medical oxygen, per se, but the inadequacy of the …

Indonesia orders urgent switch to medical oxygen production as Covid cases soar and ‘dozens die from shortage’
3 years, 6 months ago

Indonesia orders urgent switch to medical oxygen production as Covid cases soar and ‘dozens die from shortage’

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Indonesian government has ordered …

Oxygen shortages blamed for deaths of 33 COVID-19 patients at Indonesian hospital
3 years, 6 months ago

Oxygen shortages blamed for deaths of 33 COVID-19 patients at Indonesian hospital

ABC  

Dozens of coronavirus patients have died after a public hospital on Indonesia's main island of Java ran short of oxygen. Key points: Hospitals are being pushed to the brink by the Delta variant Wholesale oxygen prices have more than doubled The health authorities have blamed oxygen shortages on distribution problems At least 33 patients died after the central supply of …

Africa Is Running Out Of Oxygen
3 years, 6 months ago

Africa Is Running Out Of Oxygen

NPR  

Africa Is Running Out Of Oxygen Enlarge this image toggle caption Nicholas Kajoba/Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images Nicholas Kajoba/Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images Hospital wards across Uganda are filling with COVID-19 patients as the country faces an aggressive surge in cases. Sierra Leone, for instance, has only two plants for the entire country, Sponsor Message "Prior to the …

India begins 'Extension of Hospitals' project to fight Covid
3 years, 7 months ago

India begins 'Extension of Hospitals' project to fight Covid

India TV News  

To plug a major health infrastructure gap in India's fight against Covid-19, especially in rural areas and smaller towns, India has started project 'Extension of Hospitals' in various states. Project 'Extension Hospitals' is one such initiative for which Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser invited private sector companies, donor organizations, and individuals to support the initiative along with various other …

HC Seeks Stands of Centre, Delhi Govt on Plea for CBI Probe into Deaths at Jaipur Golden Hospital
3 years, 7 months ago

HC Seeks Stands of Centre, Delhi Govt on Plea for CBI Probe into Deaths at Jaipur Golden Hospital

News 18  

The Delhi High Court on Friday sought the stand of the Centre and the city government on a plea seeking a CBI probe into the death of 21 Covid patients at the Jaipur Golden Hospital here in April allegedly due to oxygen shortage. The plea has alleged that the incident took place “due to deliberate inaction and failure of the …

A detailed response to the Lancet blaming PM Modi for the Covid-19 crisis
3 years, 7 months ago

A detailed response to the Lancet blaming PM Modi for the Covid-19 crisis

Op India  

Renowned medical journal The Lancet has started to publish a lot of propaganda articles against the Modi government in India. The table below shows Covid-related data to population and economy : – Country Population Covid cases Covid deaths Deaths per million Population density per sq.km Per capita GNI in USD USA 33,10,02,651 3,41,54,305 6,11,020 1836 36 65,850 EU 445250514 3,22,59,542 …

Delhi Govt Forms 6-member Panel to Assess Cases of Covid Patients Who Died Due to Lack of Oxygen
3 years, 7 months ago

Delhi Govt Forms 6-member Panel to Assess Cases of Covid Patients Who Died Due to Lack of Oxygen

News 18  

The Delhi government has formed a six-member committee to assess cases of Covid patients who died due to lack of oxygen recently in the national capital for grant of compensation, an official order said on Thursday. On April 24, 20 Covid patients had died at Jaipur Golden Hospital as the frantic hunt for oxygen continued while COVID-19 cases surged in …

Opinion | Why India needs to improve its rickety health infrastructure
3 years, 7 months ago

Opinion | Why India needs to improve its rickety health infrastructure

India TV News  

With the second wave of pandemic showing a marked decline, the number of daily fresh Covid cases across India fell to 2,08,921 on Tuesday, while 4,157 deaths were reported. Image Source : PTI Why India needs to improve its rickety health infrastructure Image Source : PTI Representative image of a COVID hospital in Bhagalpur, Bihar I think Soren made this …

COVID-19 donations in India: Where the relief money from big tech actually goes
3 years, 7 months ago

COVID-19 donations in India: Where the relief money from big tech actually goes

Firstpost  

Here’s a look at the timeline of when and how tech companies announced their pledges for COVID-19 relief in India. Xiaomi donates 1,000 oxygen concentrators On 22 April, Xiaomi donated Rs 3 crore to procure over 1,000 oxygen concentrators for hospitals across India. Here’s what we found out: Rs 2 crore was given to the Uttar Pradesh government “Some” oxygen …

Our multi-pronged war against an invisible adversary
3 years, 7 months ago

Our multi-pronged war against an invisible adversary

Live Mint  

India’s multi-pronged war against the covid pandemic is best embodied by Mahatma Gandhi’s adage that “action expresses priorities”. This war needed to be fought proactively on multiple fronts that included securing medical infrastructure, increasing covid testing capacities, ramping up production of medical essentials such as oxygen and life-saving drugs, and evolving a roadmap to vaccinate every willing citizen in India. …

India’s Covid deaths top 300,000
3 years, 7 months ago

India’s Covid deaths top 300,000

CNN  

A version of this story appeared in the May 24 edition of CNN’s Coronavirus: Fact vs. Fiction newsletter. Meanwhile, an alarming uptick in deaths among Covid-19 survivors from a rare “black fungus” infection is underlining problems in India’s health care system. WHAT’S IMPORTANT TODAY New information on Wuhan researchers’ illness furthers debate on pandemic origins A US intelligence report found …

Volunteers lead Covid-19 fight in Bengaluru while braving personal losses
3 years, 7 months ago

Volunteers lead Covid-19 fight in Bengaluru while braving personal losses

Hindustan Times  

At a time when Bengaluru, like rest of the country, is battling the surging second wave of Covid-19 pandemic, volunteers from across the city have come forward to help residents while braving personal losses. “I have been helping to give decent burial to several victims of Covid-19, but when it came to my uncle, there was no one to help …

Life-saving medical equipment flown to India from Scotland and Wales
3 years, 7 months ago

Life-saving medical equipment flown to India from Scotland and Wales

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Devastating scenes unfolded as India’s second wave saw infections …

As COVID wave rages in Nepal, hospitals run out of beds, oxygen
3 years, 7 months ago

As COVID wave rages in Nepal, hospitals run out of beds, oxygen

Al Jazeera  

Record numbers of infections and deaths sweep Nepal, prompting fears its second wave may be worse than India’s. Kathmandu, Nepal – The Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital in the Nepali capital, Kathmandu, is packed – so packed that in some cases two patients share one bed – as a second COVID-19 wave overwhelms the country’s health infrastructure. Nepal’s number …

Bihar’s Oxygen Man saves 1,400 covid patients in 10 months
3 years, 7 months ago

Bihar’s Oxygen Man saves 1,400 covid patients in 10 months

Live Mint  

Last July, a 50-year-old Patna resident spent a week in hospital battling covid-19. Gaurav Rai, now known as Bihar’s ‘Oxygen Man’, has since saved over 1,400 lives across the state by providing oxygen cylinders free of cost to critically ill patients in home isolation. Gopal Sinha, a Patna-based regional manager of a private company, says Rai helped them when his …

Empathise with hospital staff: L-G
3 years, 7 months ago

Empathise with hospital staff: L-G

The Hindu  

Lieutenant Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on Monday urged those who launched a broadside on conditions in government hospitals to show empathy for healthcare personnel in times of the raging pandemic. Governor, who inspected the Indira Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute a day after a clip highlighting the conditions inside a COVID-19 ward during a visit by MLA G. Nehru was …

India's covid collapse, part 7: Why did we face an acute oxygen shortage?
3 years, 7 months ago

India's covid collapse, part 7: Why did we face an acute oxygen shortage?

India Today  

One of the biggest lessons for medical institutions from the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic was that more than ventilators and ICU beds, what was essential was an adequate supply of oxygen in hospitals to treat critically ill patients. Nonetheless, when the second wave of the pandemic arrived earlier this year, India’s medical oxygen supply network collapsed. Though production …

More than 70 patients die at Indian state’s biggest Covid facility because of oxygen shortage
3 years, 8 months ago

More than 70 patients die at Indian state’s biggest Covid facility because of oxygen shortage

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Seventy-five patients have died at …

Divert surplus oxygen from Delhi's quota to other states, says Manish Sisodia
3 years, 8 months ago

Divert surplus oxygen from Delhi's quota to other states, says Manish Sisodia

Firstpost  

The Delhi deputy chief minister said the National Capital needed 700 MT of oxygen when COVID-19 cases were rising, but a fall in cases and hospital admissions has brought that number down to 582 MT New Delhi: The Delhi government has written to the Centre, saying the surplus oxygen that is being given to it can be supplied to other …

15 more patients die at Goa hospital; relatives blame disruption in oxygen supply
3 years, 8 months ago

15 more patients die at Goa hospital; relatives blame disruption in oxygen supply

Hindustan Times  

Two days after 26 patients lost their lives at Goa’s premier government-run hospital due to lack of oxygen between 2am and 6am, the Pramod Sawant government on Thursday told the Bombay high court that 15 more patients died on Thursday morning also but tried to convince the court that all these deaths could not be attributed to the disruption in …

Begging for air: India’s oxygen crisis imperils its COVID-19 response
3 years, 8 months ago

Begging for air: India’s oxygen crisis imperils its COVID-19 response

LA Times  

The men stood shoulder to shoulder in the blazing heat, their chests leaning against empty oxygen cylinders lodged in the dirt. “India’s COVID-19 response has failed because it ignored a fundamental first principle of good governance — the principle of subsidiarity, which means that the central authority performs only those functions that cannot be performed at the local level and …

Why India ran out of oxygen despite boosting capacity more than 125%
3 years, 8 months ago

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

India Today  

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 …

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