The truckers who keep India’s coronavirus patients breathing
Live MintSubhas Kumar Yadav has fought fear, deadlines and hunger to truck liquid oxygen from a factory in Himalayan foothills to hospitals in the northern plains during the coronavirus epidemic. "We were on duty," said the 33-year-old driver with Linde India Ltd, an affiliate of the world's largest supplier of industrial gases, Linde Plc. With India's COVID-19 infections surging since March and many patients struggling to breathe, hospitals have scrambled to secure supplies of medical oxygen, increasing pressure on people like Yadav and companies like Linde to deliver them in time. Linde, which competes with nearly two dozen oxygen suppliers in India, including France's Air Liquide, has responded by tweaking its production lines away from industrial gases like nitrogen and argon, company officials told Reuters. "We did maximum oxygen production," said Surendra Singh, a Linde India business head.
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