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Desperate Indians are calling Switzerland for oxygen concentrators
Desperate Indians are calling Switzerland for oxygen concentrators
For the past two weeks, retailers Raphael Koch and Dino Vivarelli have been busy fielding a flurry of phone calls, mostly from Indians looking for oxygen concentrators. Text Size:
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Geneva/Mumbai: Raphael Koch, a retailer of medical devices in the small Swiss town of Wil, has been busy for the past two weeks fielding a flurry of phone calls. Most are from Indians or India-based companies looking for oxygen concentrators, with some even wanting as many as 500 at once.
But Koch’s Oxymed store barely has any stock left of the little known machines that separate the critical gas from air and assist patients with low blood-oxygen levels. And he isn’t expecting fresh supplies from manufacturers at least until mid-June.
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New Delhi: Highlighting the fact that the country has lost 756 doctors in the first wave and over 146 in the second wave, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has questioned the lack of transparency in reporting Covid-19 deaths, as well as the manpower shortage, drug shortage and the ‘oxygen crisis’ in the country in a scathing press release issued Saturday.
Titled ‘IMA demands health ministry to wake up from slumber and responds to mitigate the growing challenges in Covid Pandemic’, the release said: “Hundreds of deaths happening in big hospitals are shown as non-COVID deaths and crematoriums are showing houseful boards. RTPCR negative, but CT positive cases are not counted. Why are we trying to hide actual deaths?”