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.
India hospital fire kills 13 as nation struggles with oxygen shortage April 23, 2021
Ajoy Sehgal, a New Delhi s Sir Ganga Ram Hospital spokesperson, said he would not comment on whether 25 patients who died in the past 24 hours at the hospital died from a lack of oxygen. Courtesy photo
NEW DELHI A fire in western India killed 13 COVID-19 patients in hospital early on Friday amid rising infections in the country.
India reported a daily record in new cases, adding 332,730 in 24 hours.
The situation has worsened in the country as the nation s hospitals struggle to get oxygen supplies to treat patients.
Indian news agencies reported that a serious oxygen supply crisis was contributing to the deaths of COVID-19 patients.
India put oxygen tankers on special express trains as major hospitals in New Delhi on Friday begged on social media for more supplies to save COVID-19 patients who are struggling to breathe. More than a dozen people died when an oxygen-fed fire ripped through a coronavirus ward in a populous western state
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NEW DELHI – India put oxygen tankers on special express trains as major hospitals in New Delhi begged on social media on Friday for more supplies to save COVID-19 patients who are struggling to breathe. More than a dozen people died when an oxygen-fed fire ripped through a coronavirus ward in a populous western state.
India’s underfunded health system is tattering as the world’s worst coronavirus surge wears out the nation, which set a global record in daily infections for a second straight day with 332,730.
India has confirmed 16 million cases so far, second only to the United States, in a country of nearly 1.4 billion people. India has recorded 2263 deaths in the past 24 hours for a total of 186,920. The fire in a hospital intensive care unit killed 13 Covid-19 patients in the Virar area on the outskirts of Mumbai early Friday. A major private hospital chain in the capital, Max Hospital, tweeted that one of its facilities had one hour’s oxygen supply in its system and had been waiting for replenishment since early morning. Two days earlier, they had filed a petition in the Delhi High Court saying they were running out of oxygen, endangering the lives of 400 patients, of which 262 were being treated for Covid-19.