India's severe medical oxygen supply crisis is expected to ease by mid-May, a top industry executive told Reuters, with output rising by 25 per cent and transport infrastructure ready to cope with a surge in demand caused by a dramatic rise in coronavirus cases. Medical oxygen consumption in India has shot up more than eight-fold from usual levels to about …
Subhas Kumar Yadav has fought fear, deadlines and hunger to truck liquid oxygen from a factory in India’s Himalayan foothills to hospitals in the northern plains during the coronavirus epidemic. “It’s not like we could just give up and go home.” With India’s COVID-19 infections surging since March and many patients struggling to breathe, hospitals have scrambled to secure supplies …
Subhas 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 …
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