ASIA/INDIA - The Indian Bishops: closeness to the population affected by the pandemic; the government is clearly responsible INDIA 2021-04-26 2021-03-15
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Deep concern and anguish for the second wave of Covid-19 that seriously affects the nation and full closeness and solidarity with the entire Indian population. With these sentiments, the Indian bishops intervene in the crisis phase the nation is going through, severely tested by the pandemic wave. The Catholic Church notes with extreme concern that India is reporting a record number of coronavirus cases and deaths, while there is an alarming shortage of medicines, vaccines and even oxygen supplies and hospital beds. The health system, observers say, is on the verge of collapse. Archbishop Prakash Mallavarapu, President of the Health Commission of the Indian Bishops Conference (CBCI), explains to Fides: It can be said that the main cause of this tragic situation is the complacen
India reports COVID-19 patients dying of lack of oxygen; leak kills 22
Patients suffering from COVID-19 receive oxygen at a hospital in New Delhi April 15, 2021. (CNS photo/Danish Siddiqui, Reuters)
By Catholic News Service • Posted April 22, 2021
NEW DELHI (CNS) An oxygen leak at a government hospital in India has killed 22 COVID-19 patients as the entire country faces a huge shortage of oxygen to support pandemic-hit patients.
Ucanews.com reported that the leak in the main liquid oxygen storage tank at Zakir Hussain Hospital in Maharashtra state led to a drop in the oxygen pressure of ventilators, and the patients died immediately April 21.