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On the morning of September 12, 2024, medical officer Subhash Pavara was carrying out regular check-ups of patients at the Primary Health Centre in Son village of Dhadgaon taluk in Maharashtra’s Nandurbar district when he received an urgent call from ASHA worker Sunanda Valvi. I managed to reach Dhadgaon Rural Hospital and requested Dr. Babulal Pavara and Dr. Santosh Parmar, …

Among the earliest deaths from oxygen deficiency at a hospital in India happened on the outskirts of Mumbai in the Vasai–Palghar belt, just an hour’s drive from the international airport. These ‘oxygen deaths’ must include not only those who perished in ICUs where assisted breathing machines suddenly went cold, but must also count and acknowledge those who died out on …

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When COVID-19 struck Karamsingh Pawar, a tribal activist from Nandurbar district in northwestern Maharashtra, it took him 48 hours to get a hospital bed with oxygen support. As Maharashtra, India’s richest state, grapples with ferociously rising COVID-19 cases, patients such as Pawar are struggling to find hospital beds and oxygen support. “This time, the active cases have shot up to …