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Church leaders laud Indian court move amid raging pandemic deaths
Supreme Court sets up a task force to distribute oxygen as PM Modi is accused of mishandling the crisis
A relative wearing personal protective equipment performs the last rites before the cremation of a Covid-19 victim at a cremation ground in New Delhi on May 11. (Photo: Sajjad Hussain/AFP)
Catholic leaders have welcomed a move by India’s Supreme Court to appoint a team of doctors and bureaucrats to coordinate the distribution of medical oxygen across the country after hundreds died without oxygen in hospitals.
The top court’s intervention will go a long way to saving many lives, said retired Archbishop Thomas Menamparambil of Guwahati, based in Assam state in northeastern India.