#SOS: India s tweets for help
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PUBLISHED May 7, 2021
A second wave of COVID-19 infections sweeping through India is pushing the healthcare system to the brink and overwhelming central and state governments. As authorities struggle to cope with the soaring number of cases and fatalities, Indians have started to lean on one another, taking to Twitter with desperate cries for help.
Pleas for oxygen, hospital beds, ventilators, access to intensive care units and even COVID-19 tests have inundated the Twitter feeds of Indian users since the crisis worsened in April. All of the essentials for fighting the pandemic have been in short supply across the country, with the shortage particularly acute in the capital city New Delhi.
By Shivani Singh and Devjyot Ghoshal
NEW DELHI, April 29 (Reuters) - 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% and transport infrastructure ready to cope with a surge in demand caused by a dramatic rise in coronavirus cases.
Dozens of hospitals in cities such as New Delhi and Mumbai have run short of the gas this month, sending relatives of patients scrambling for oxygen cylinders, sometimes in vain.
Medical oxygen consumption in India has shot up more than eight-fold from usual levels to about 7,200 tonnes per day this month, said Moloy Banerjee of Linde Plc, the country s biggest producer.
India s oxygen crisis to ease by mid-May, output to jump 25% - executive
Reuters | Apr 29, 2021 11:50 PM EDT
A patient suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) receives treatment inside the emergency ward at Holy Family hospital in New Delhi, India (Photo : REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui)
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% and transport infrastructure ready to cope with a surge in demand caused by a dramatic rise in coronavirus cases.
Dozens of hospitals in cities such as New Delhi and Mumbai have run short of the gas this month, sending relatives of patients scrambling for oxygen cylinders, sometimes in vain.