A death every 4 minutes ... a tragedy and a health disaster in India due to Corona

Several hospitals in New Delhi, the second largest Indian city after Mumbai and home to 13 million people, have issued emergency calls for emergency supplies of oxygen needed for intensive care rooms to save Corona virus patients.

India is facing a second, tidal wave of the pandemic, which has seen a rate of death every 4 minutes in Delhi, while the health system in the underfunded capital collapses.

India is accelerating, by air, trains and land, to transport large quantities of medical oxygen to hospitals in its capital, New Delhi, and other areas severely affected by the record high number of cases of the epidemic.

And the Indian Ministry of Health announced, on Saturday, that the number of Coronavirus cases increased to 346,786 cases within 24 hours, setting a new record for infections worldwide for the third consecutive day, at a time when many hospitals in the densely populated country appealed to obtain supplies. Of oxygen.

The government deployed military planes and trains to bring oxygen from far away to Delhi, and television footage showed an oxygen truck arriving at the capital's Batra Hospital after a distress call in which he said he no longer had oxygen to supply 260 patients except for enough ninety minutes.

The crisis is present in other parts of the country, as some hospitals issued public reports stating a lack of medical oxygen, and media reported new deaths due to lack of oxygen in Jaipur and Amritsar.

The lack of oxygen in Indian hospitals is due to 3 reasons: the first is the distance between production factories and hospitals, the second is the distribution network that extends over thousands of kilometers, and the third is poor planning, according to some observers.

A source in the medical oxygen industry told «Reuters» that, due to the danger of the material, all liquid oxygen must be transported in a limited number of specialized conveyors, which requires prior planning to ensure delivery on time.

And in recent days, as the scramble for oxygen worsened between Indian states, local officials in some areas disrupted tanker traffic, in an effort to keep supplies to their areas.

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