How India ran out of oxygen

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In April 2021, India began registering some of the highest numbers of Covid-19 cases in the world. When that happened, the demand for life-saving oxygen soared too. But India wasnтАЩt able to keep up, adding avoidable deaths to a second wave of Covid-19 that has devastated the country. The oxygen shortage seemed to have caught India off guard. That made the news in this pandemic, but India has run out of oxygen before. So why does this keep happening?

Read more about the governmentтАЩs stalled plans to improve oxygen access: https://scroll.in/article/992537/india-is-running-out-of-oxygen-covid-19-patients-are-dying-because-the-government-wasted-time

Read more of VoxтАЩs coverage on IndiaтАЩs oxygen crisis: https://www.vox.com/22428619/india-covid-oxygen-shortage-supply-tankers-vaccines

For more on IndiaтАЩs oxygen access, check out PATHтАЩs 2018 report: https://path.azureedge.net/media/documents/India_Oxygen_Country_Report.pdf

Check out PATHтАЩs Oxygen Needs Tracker to learn about global demand: https://www.path.org/programs/market-dynamics/covid-19-oxygen-needs-tracker/

Read more about the oxygen crisis: https://www.indiaspend.com/covid-19/as-covid-19-cases-increased-oxygen-beds-fell-data-show-743552
https://www.indiaspend.com/india-working-to-avert-an-oxygen-crisis-during-covid-19/

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