Growing calls for more oxygen, beds as India virus crisis deepens | Malay Mail

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NEW DELHI, April 19 — More government hospital beds will be freed for Covid-19 patients, India’s health ministry said Sunday, as the vast nation grappled with a worsening virus crisis and states appealed for additional supplies of oxygen and treatment drugs. The country of 1.3 billion...

A patient wearing an oxygen mask sits on a bed as he is being shifted to a hospital for treatment, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease in Ahmedabad, India April 15, 2021. — Reuters picNEW DELHI, April 19 — More government hospital beds will be freed for Covid-19 patients, India’s health ministry said Sunday, as the vast nation grappled with a worsening virus crisis and states appealed for additional supplies of oxygen and treatment drugs.

Special trains would transport oxygen tankers to needy states, while the government said oxygen use for industrial purposes would be limited. “The cases are rising very fast... only 100 beds left,” Kejriwal said earlier Sunday in a video statement.His government added that millions of pilgrims who attended an ongoing religious festival — the Kumbh Mela — had to quarantine for two weeks if they returned to Delhi.

Both Banerjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party held large election campaigns on Sunday.

 

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