May 12, 2021
The second wave of Covid-19 in India quickly went from being a healthcare crisis to a humanitarian crisis. Thousands of patients gasped for breath in the absence of enough high-flow oxygen, which is an effective treatment for the disease.
For more than a month now, the oxygen crisis in the country has been a tug-of-war between the Narendra Modi government, state governments, hospitals, and oxygen manufacturers. In several areas, individuals have been left to run from pillar to post in search of oxygen cylinders for their family and friends.
All stakeholders have their own reasons for why Indian doctors still don’t have enough supply of the essential gas to treat their patients.
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We have ramped up medical oxygen capacity, ensuring supplies remain consistent: INOX Air Products Director Siddharth Jain By Ved Prakash | Updated: May 10, 2021 22:27 IST
New Delhi [India], May 10 (ANI): INOX Air Products, a major supplier of liquid medical oxygen in the country, has ramped up its production from 2,000 tonnes per day (TPD) to 2,700 TPD to meet the spiraling demand due to surge in COVID-19 cases in the second wave of pandemic in the country. It is also working with government agencies for faster transport of oxygen to states with higher demand and is at present catering to more than one-third of the country s demand when the requirement is at its peak.
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by Swarajya Staff - May 6, 2021 10:18 AM
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
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As Covid-19 cases started rising in the country in April, states like Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, which do not produce medical oxygen in significant quantities, rushed to acquire cryogenic tankers available in the market while the Delhi government limited its effort to demanding extra allocation of medical oxygen from the Centre.
In early April, when Mumbai had around 92,000 active cases of Covid-19, the city to managed meet its requirement of medical oxygen with a supply of 275 metric tonnes (MT) per day. However Delhi, which currently has nearly the same number of active cases, has a dramatically higher oxygen demand.