Hospitals in the country are struggling to cope with shortages of beds and oxygen supplies — some say they only have a few hours' of oxygen supply left. Crematoriums are also starting to melt from operating for so long. Prashant Kanojia, member of the Rashtriya Lok Dal party in India and a former journalist, on Sunday tweeted with the hashtag #CovidSOS that a hospital in Meerut, north India, needed urgent oxygen supplies. In response to a thread by journalist Swati Chaturvedi to amplify people's requests for help, one Twitter user said her relative was a critical cancer patient who couldn't be transferred to ICU because there were no beds available.