“Modi is as brutal as Xi, and treating him as an ally will simply help him to crush the remaining vestiges of democracy in India and continue his disastrous Covid policy.”
India’s Covid Crisis: Can the Modi Regime Get India Out of It?
It’s hard to live in India these days, surrounded by death, fear and grief. We are inundated with heart-breaking TV reports of people begging for hospital beds and oxygen as their family members die on the pavement or in vehicles gasping for breath. Others die inside hospitals as they run out of oxygen. Equally disturbing are reports of crematorium and burial ground staff working 24/7 and still unable to get through the huge number of corpses, so that extra pyres have to be set up in parks and car parks; the massive discrepancy between those who are cremated or buried under Covid protocols and the official figures is explained by the fact that officials have been told not to write ‘Covid-19’ as the cause of death, suggesting to some experts that the real death toll may be 2 to 5 times higher than the reported figure.[1] Other medical experts say the death toll could be up to 10 times the official one.[2] Let’s
Indian medical staff indict Modi government, authorities for catastrophic mishandling of pandemic
India is the global epicentre of the pandemic, with a tsunami of cases and deaths sweeping across the country. On Friday, India’s Health Ministry reported a record daily increase of 414,188 cases, with deaths rising by 3,915. There have now been 21.49 million officially registered cases since the beginning of the pandemic, and 234,083 deaths. Both of these figures are widely recognised to be vast undercounts.
India’s emergence as the world’s COVID-19 epicentre accounting for more than 45 percent of all new cases worldwide in the past week is the direct product of the “profits before lives” policy enforced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his far-right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government. This policy has been supported by state governments throughout the country, including those led by the Congress Party and other opposition parties. Despite warnings from epidemiologist
Second Covid-19 Wave: How PSA Oxygen Plants Could Help India
by Swarajya Staff - Apr 28, 2021 02:17 PM
A PSA plant
PSA technology is used to separate gas species from a mixture of gases under pressure.
The Indian government announced on 25 April that 551 medical oxygen generation plants, based on a technology known as Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA), will be set up inside public health facilities around the country.
PSA technology is used to separate gas species from a mixture of gases under pressure.
As per the Press Information Bureau, PM Cares Fund had already allocated Rs.201.58 crores earlier this year for the installation of 162 dedicated PSA medical oxygen generation plants.
Fact check: Did states fail to use PM-Cares funds allocated by the Centre to build oxygen plants?
India’s oxygen crisis has triggered a political blame game. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. | Screengrabs
As hospitals in India run out of medical oxygen in the midst of a massive second wave of Covid-19, a political war has broken out over who is responsible for the crisis.
Actor Kangana Ranaut tweeted on Saturday asking for accountability from Delhi and Maharashtra chief ministers for their failure to use the funds allocated by the Centre from the PM-Cares corpus for building PSA oxygen plants.