Indian Hospitals Using Social Media to Beg for Oxygen as Country Sets COVID Record
On 4/23/21 at 10:31 AM EDT
Hospitals in India have taken to begging the government on social media to replenish their oxygen supplies.
A major private hospital, Max Hospital, tweeted on Thursday that it had one hour of oxygen left at one of its locations and was waiting for supplies since the morning. It also filed a petition on Tuesday in the Delhi High Court that it was running out of oxygen, putting 400 patients at risk of dying, according to the
Associated Press.
India set a global record in daily infections for the second straight day with 332,730, and it is second only to the U.S. in overall cases, according to public data. With 16 million cases—and 2,263 deaths recorded in the past 24 hours—the country's underfunded health system is crumbling under the weight of what is now the world's worst coronavirus surge.