April 26, 2021
India’s healthcare system is crumbling and Twitter is becoming the nerve centre for the crisis.
A host of hospital management teams and doctors have created Twitter IDs in just the last couple of months only to send out #SOS requests, amplify issues, and connect with those who can help.
Hospitals that were active on Twitter earlier have changed how they use it.
For instance, Delhi’s Moolchand Hospital, which joined Twitter four months into the coronavirus outbreak in July 2020, steered away from the regular programming of its vaccine drive tweets to put out SOS messages.
These requests are surfacing either because nobody knows who to ask for help, or their pleas to the authorities have failed to get aid.