India hospital sends people to find oxygen

India hospital sends the nephew of an elderly patient to find oxygen as the country grapples with a worsening wave. The worker in charge of filling the tanks recognized it immediately: the feeling that it was a human being very close to the limit and pushed to the limit. She succumbed to him to the protest moans of those who had already spent hours in line waiting for their cylinders to be filled.

India hospital sends a patient's grandson to find oxygen: the story

India hospital sends a patient's nephew to find oxygen: the story "I've been going non-stop for the past three days ", He told us Harshit Khattar. "I haven't eaten or anything. I go from place to place trying to find oxygen for my grandmother. "It's on a ventilator in the hospital and the hospital has no oxygen, so they told me to go out and look for some." He jumped into a taxi with his two cylinders and greeted us politely. It would take him an hour and 15 minutes to get out of Delhi and into a neighboring state to deliver his life bottles to the hospital. And then his search would start all over again.

India the hospital. Why India has come this way

India the hospital. Why India has come this way. How did it get to this point for a country that was the fastest growing economy in the world and ran television commercials every few minutes claiming to be "Incredible India"? How did the world's largest democracy find itself in a position where the government appeals to Twitter bosses to remove posts criticizing officials for handling the coronavirus crisis? How a country that announced with such confidence that it had defeated the global pandemic in January has now become theepicenter of the world of the virus epidemic?

Many analysts and commentators blame political decisions: the fact that allowing a selection of political demonstrations to move forward, which brought together tens of thousands of people, has encouraged the spread of the virus. The decision to move the religious holiday, the Kumbh Mela, to this year due to the "auspicious dates" does not seem too wise in retrospect (it is estimated that 10 million people were present). The very public and repeated political statements that the country had conquered COVID may have given people a false sense of security, but there are other significant factors that may also have played a role.

India is one of the world's leading vaccine producers

India is one of the main ones world producers of vaccines, but only about 2% of the population received the two full vaccinations. The country has delivered vaccines to multiple countries, including Bhutan which managed to vaccinate over 90% of its population in 16 days, while India itself ran out of vaccines for a week. Indians wonder why the country didn't make sure hers was safeguarded first. Adoption has been curtailed so far, perhaps due to its huge population and reaching everyone, but also out of fear and perhaps the perception that they wouldn't need it if they defeated it.

The prime minister Narendra Modi it is now rolling it out to all adults over the age of 18 from May 1st… and this time around there is likely to be a huge consensus. The country is also struggling with several variations and mutations. The variants - one of which has been identified as the British variant discovered in Kent - appears to spread more rapidly, and infected people appear to need more oxygen and for a longer time. This is all anecdotal evidence, but this is what Indian doctors on the front line are telling us - and their first-hand testimony about trying to save lives cannot be easily ignored.

There are also suggestions that even with the vaccine, which all health care workers in India have received, doctors are reinfecting, suggesting this could be a problem once general population vaccinations become more widespread.

We pray for them:

O Holy Spirit, who formed the body of in Mary's womb Jesus and with your power you have given new life to his dead body by raising him from the tomb, you heal my body forever from the many diseases from which it is often struck. Enlighten doctors to make the correct diagnosis and to give the right therapy. Guide the hand of surgeons.