India: Several people died after the oxygen supply to a hospital was cut off
A large number of the population is suffering in India due to COVID-19
India is being shaken by
a wave of new covid-19 infections like nowhere else right now the country has
recorded the world's highest daily tally ever with nearly 315000 cases in the
last 24 hours this latest wave has overwhelmed the health care system some
hospitals in the capital Delhi have already run out of the oxygen needed to
keep people, alive families of the sick wait, helplessly outside of the hospital
India is facing an acute oxygen shortage as covid-19 infections skyrocket 22
patients died at a hospital in Maharashtra state after a leak cut off their
oxygen supply.
This woman's mother was
one of them she had been here for five days and had recovered there was no
oxygen she died in agony she had trouble breathing she died everyone in the
ward died hospitals in India are flooded with some warning they will run out of
oxygen within hours demand for oxygen has gone up significantly we have at At least 350 covid patients and all of them probably all of them require oxygen
and because of which the supplies that are coming in which are very irregular
and uncertain there is a lot of you know the tension in the system oxygen supplies
are being rushed across India after Delhi's high court ordered tanks to be
diverted from factories to hospitals medicine supplies are also running low in
india's largest city of Mumbai i am feeling really helpless because being a
pharmacist my duty is to fulfill the demands of the customer when I'm not able
to fulfill the demands so there's no use in coming to the pharmacy I'm feeling
really helpless people are crying and asking for medication and I'm saying no no
no cases of the coronavirus have surged after millions flocked to religious
festivals in recent weeks elections and political rallies also attracted large
crowds giving the virus-free reign to rampage through we're hearing about
this desperate shortage of oxygen and hospital beds how bad is the situation at
the moment.
The situation clearly is dire there's a desperate scramble for medical care medical infrastructure across the country is under severe stress especially in hot spots like new Delhi and Mumbai once again today we are seeing people scrambling crowding around hospitals which are totally full trying to get treatment trying to get oxygen trying to get beds there are shocking instances of deaths being reported as hospitals run out of oxygen and the times are so desperate that social media in India is flooded with requests for oxygen for beds for medication and this truly indicates just how difficult it is for the governments on every level to cope with this crisis that people are actually turning to Instagram and Twitter as their last resort yeah certainly an alarming situation what about the vaccine uh rollout is there a chance that immunizations could improve things soon well the vaccine rollout in India has been sluggish India is lagging behind its original targets of course because of the massive population here posting doses given out every day of between two to four million does make the vaccine drive look impressive but still, it does not even reach 10 of the population with at least one dose the Indian government has now announced an expansion of the drive to everybody above the age of 18 from the 1st of may this is of course been held as an important step however there are concerns that now that manufacturers are allowed to put vaccines on the open market this could push our prices and take them out of the reach of India's poor what else then are authorities doing to try and combat this explosion in infections the authorities are actually making decisions on a state-by-state level
We still don't have a declaration on the national level the prime minister did come out appealing to people to take precautions to avoid a national lockdown but authorities the hardest-hit states like Delhi and Maharashtra have imposed different versions of lockdowns and shutdowns saying they need this time to ramp up healthcare infrastructure but it does truly look like a day upon day firefight and there might be much more stringent action needed because these curfews are not showing an impact on numbers at least so far mammoth task ahead.
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