Oxygen shortages are plaguing India amid its explosion in COVID-19 cases — and experts say it is a result of years of insufficient spending on its healthcare system and the government’s failure to ...
India is not alone in the shortage of oxygen at hospitals but the deadly surge in COVID-19 cases exacerbated the crisis. An elderly man, who arrived unconscious and bleeding through the nose, was ...
Police arrested three people in India earlier this month for allegedly repainting fire extinguishers to look like oxygen cylinders and selling them to family members of COVID-19 patients, the Times of ...
MEERUT, India — The men stood shoulder to shoulder in the blazing heat, their chests leaning against empty oxygen cylinders lodged in the dirt. They had come from all over to this makeshift center for ...
MUMBAI, India — Sanchi Gupta was running around, trying to get her hands on an oxygen cylinder — even an empty one. Her mother was one of 140 COVID-19 patients in Saroj Hospital, one of the ...
NEW DELHI — Dr. Gautam Singh dreads the daily advent of the ventilator beeps, signaling that oxygen levels are critically low, and hearing his severely ill patients start gasping for air in the New ...
Breathless and fighting for her life, Reshma Aub Shaikh lay for 13 hours in the back of an auto-rickshaw as her family drove around Mumbai’s suburbs in search of medical care. Covid-positive and ...
Hospitals battling a furious Covid-19 surge around the country have exhausted their supplies of oxygen cylinders, necessary to help patients deal with the oxygen depletion caused by the virus. The ...