It happened at Chamarajanagar District Hospital in Karnataka, in southern India.
“It is a failure of governance,” said Ritu Priya, a professor, at Center of Social Medicine and Community Health in Jawaharlal University, in New Delhi. “We were not able to channelize oxygen distribution over the past year, when that is what we should have been doing.”“We are living from oxygen cylinder to oxygen cylinder,” she said.
Medical oxygen has suddenly become one of the most precious resources in India...
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The Indian government says that it has enough liquid oxygen to meet medical needs and that it is rapidly expanding its supply. It blames logistical issues for shortages of oxygen, but many doctors and sick people question that.
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What is complicating matters in India is that the oxygen production facilities are concentrated mostly in its eastern parts, far from the worst outbreaks in Delhi and in the western state of Maharashtra, requiring several days’ travel time by road.
It's dystopia is what it is.