Posted on Apr 26, 2021
US to send aid as coronavirus continues to devastate India
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With life-saving oxygen in short supply, family members in India are left on their own to ferry coronavirus patients from hospital to hospital in search of treatment as the country is engulfed in a devastating new surge of infections. Too often their efforts end in mourning.
The stories are told on social media and in television footage, showing desperate relatives pleading for oxygen outside hospitals or weeping in the street for loved ones who died waiting for treatment.
One woman mourned the death of her younger brother, aged 50. He was turned away by two hospitals and died waiting to be seen at a third, gasping after his oxygen tank ran out and no replacements were to be had.
The stories are told on social media and in television footage, showing desperate relatives pleading for oxygen outside hospitals or weeping in the street for loved ones who died waiting for treatment.
One woman mourned the death of her younger brother, aged 50. He was turned away by two hospitals and died waiting to be seen at a third, gasping after his oxygen tank ran out and no replacements were to be had.
US to send aid as coronavirus continues to devastate India
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The situation in India is man made. The shortage of Oxygen is due to corruption in the system; selling oxygen cylinders at 90k rupees each on the black market, when people are dying due to lack of oxygen in hospitals or a supplier leaves his supply depot to deliver oxygen to a Covid-19 designated hospital through the green corridor with 7MT of oxygen and only delivers 1MT of oxygen to the hospital after four hours. Similarly, the shortage of vaccines in India. Prices for vaccine increases on 05/01, so hospitals and vaccination stations are hoarding remaining vials till then. This is the current situation Ma'am.
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SPC David S.
Another component is the design of India's universal health care system. State governments provide healthcare services and health education, while the central government offers administrative and technical services. Poorer states, like Bihar, often have less access to adequate healthcare than residents of relatively more affluent states. This disparity helps drive the corruption. More than likely the US will send billions in supplies to India's central health office. However betting most of it will end up in Goa and the surrounding states.
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CPT Gurinder (Gene) Rana
SPC David S., no quite. The U.S. will provide vaccine raw materials and India will produce it, but most will first reach BJP run states, like Utter Pradesh and Gujrat, and/or Haryana. In election states, the Central Government will provide to win the vote banks of the masses, just as they have done in Bengal, where the Center provided 20,000 rupees per household during the initial wave and has promised free grain to millions till August in this second wave; politics holds the aces at the cost of lives.
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SPC Michael Terrell
The town that I grew up in had a large, modern steel mill. BOF requires huge amounts of oxygen to operate. Air Products Corporation built and operated an Air Reduction plant that compressed air to liquid form, then separated the gasses by boiling them off. Most of the Oxygen went to that mill, but a lot was transported to hospitals in liquid form. Other gases were sold of for scientific and manufacturing. I don't think India has anything like this, but if thety did, it would be a huge help. Industrial oxygen is just as pure as medical grade, it is just delivered by different methods.
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SPC David S.
CPT Gurinder (Gene) Rana - Yes unfortunately politics is at play I think on a global scale when it comes to addressing the pandemic. More or less what I was thinking but figured wealth in India was tied to the power of the ruling party in this case the Bharatiya Janata Party. I'm sure the $250 dollars was well received along with the grain. by those in Bengal. Its very similar to what is going on in the US with the stimulus checks with states getting a fair amount of the trillions being spent. The question here is how will the states spend it. Guessing it will be spent similar to that in India - placate the votes with cash/entitlements with lesser regard to addressing the pandemic.
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